Via eater.com Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman have announced the Golden Clog awards nominees. Unbeknownst to me, until I got an email a few minutes agao, I and this website have been nominated for the “Jeffrey Steingarten” award “For the writer or blogger who actually GETS it”.

If they’re talking about makin it with food writer groupies, I definitely don’t “GET” it…seriously when I got in to this, I was doing it in the hopes that like a culinary version of Bret Michaels, I’d be getting lingerie and kitchen implements thrown at me. So far all I have are my dreams of a three way with Rachael Ray and Sandra Lee…

Nah, god, how awful would that be? Sandra Lee would be like, “Honey, we can use whip cream in the sack, but only 30% real whip cream…the rest will have to be Cool Whip.” Rachel would yelling at me from the other side, “You better last 30 minutes!”.

Ah, but I digress. It is an honor, as Ruhlman and Bourdain definitely “GET” it (I know, because they both have kids), and to have them send any kind of nod my way is as validating as a James Beard. Anyways, the chance of me beating Bill Buford et al is about the same as catching Anthony Bourdain throwing down jalapeno poppers at a TGI Friday’s, so I’ll wallow in my nod for the next 30 seconds and move on to some real work.