I have a question for you.

For the most part, the focus of the rapidly expanding universe of the "food blog" has been to display the cuisine. People write about their experiences, posting large photos of salivation-worthy edibles, stacked atop each other. Sometimes the stack of big, heavy photos is the entire content of the entry.

When I read food blogs, I prefer some kind of textual content, some cleverness or insightful writing or indication of "I know what I'm talking about" experience. I need more than just a stack of "OMG I wanna EAT that" plates that take several minutes of scrolling.

When I started this site, the images were pretty small, accents to the posts themselves, like "pull quotes" for a magazine article. The text wraps around the images like a news column.

Dining in L.A. has been, and continues to be, a forum for my writing. I like my bar set high. It should be able to stand on its own as content without imagery, like an entry in Counter Intelligence.

I have no idea whether DILA accomplishes this.

I'm thinking about the photos on this site. The photos have always been taken with an eye toward looking good, nicely cropped and shined up, but still fairly small. They have grown over the years since what we've described has needed more detail.

I can put larger ones here, ones that span the entire width of the column, breaking the writing into blocks. I can continue as is, as I believe the thought outweighs the visual. I can, of course, do both. Some upcoming reviews seem to need big photos, like the lovely vegan pizzas from Cruzer, so I'll try it out. Let us know what you think.