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Restaurants

• Fat Guy's Big Apple Dining Guide. Steven Shaw, the eponymous Fat Guy, no longer does traditional restaurant reviews, but his byline appears all over, and you can get his opinion a dozen times a day at...
• eGullet.com. I'm the Pacific Northwest host at this, the best of all food discussion sites. (I also cohost cooking and Western Canada.)

Travel

• Bangkok Post restaurant review. Published every Friday, this is a reliable local review from one of Bangkok's leading English newspapers. Makes me homesick for Thailand.
• Bonjour Paris. I didn't discover this site until after returning from Paris, but it's a great place to get recommendations for restaurants and food shops; lively web discussion areas.

The Media

• The Splendid Table. Lynne Rossetto Kasper has an uncanny ability to dive into a recipe, rip it apart, and reassemble it into a version more authentic and more delicious than you thought imaginable. I am currently spilling sauce all over her latest book, The Italian Country Table. You can listen to her hourlong weekly NPR show at the above link.
• RecipeSource, the Searchable Online Archive of Recipes, tends to be a painfully slow site, and it's unedited, but if you're looking for a recipe, they have it.
• Epicurious is the steadily-improving site from the publishers of Bon Appetit and Gourmet. It's rather low on personality, but they have a smaller and more focused recipe collection than SOAR and the recipes have helpful customer reviews.
• Food Network. I was heartbroken to learn upon moving back to Seattle that the overlords of TCI (now AT&T) cable don't see fit to pipe this torrent of quality cooking advice into our homes. It's so luscious, they should call it the Spice Channel. You've got David Rosengarten's Taste, Ming Tsai's East Meets West, Cooking Live Primetime with Sara Moulton. On the upside, I never inadvertantly turn on Emeril anymore. The web site has recipes, bios, and the TV schedule, but if you don't have the channel itself, it's just a tease.
• The New York Times. Reading the Times gives me hives, but I have to admit I do care whether they give Union Square Cafe three or four stars and a lot of their longer essays are good. And online, it's free (with registration).
• Simple Cooking. It's probably unfair to call John Thorne and Matt Lewis Thorne "the media," but they write books and publish a bimonthly newsletter called Simple Cooking. From their book Outlaw Cook I learned to make breakfast clafoutis, which is a light fruit custard baked in a skillet and one of the best things I've ever had for breakfast.

Supplies

• ImportFood.com. Fantastic source for imported Thai ingredients. Includes a hundred authentic recipes (click on the ingredients to buy, of course), and they sell those little sticky rice warmers that I couldn't find for sale around town. Excellent customer service.