Any suggestions or ideas on how to create a cooking Blog/Website?

I want to create a cooking blog for my mother’s recipes. I usually use Blogger—although it seems to me that Wordpress is more versatile.
I have several questions:
Do you think WP is better than Blogger? Do you know of any other free blog host that you can recommend? Should I open a blog for each category (soups, salads, etc.) and then link them to a master blog or you have a better suggestion (pages or just post them as a regular post? Do the posts organize themselves into categories according to their labels? Or should I create a website instead—except that I don’t know how to go about that either.
Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.