“I think in general the interest in food and food programming is going to grow,” says O’Maine Studio founder Rory Strunk. O’Maine is a media content creation studio in an old warehouse in Portland. 2014 Press Herald file

Hilary Nangle, who writes about food on her Maine Travel Maven blog, also believes better blogs will succeed. Courtesy photo

Malcom Bedell, who writes the From Away blog, predicts that increasing competition online means food journalists “will have to get better and better.”