Even though there is always a lot of information out there in cyberspace, I am constantly looking for new resources. This website, Masterchef, has recently come to my attention and I am very interested. It looks like a great culinary networking site with all kinds of community building options. I haven't had a chance to do more than browse, but I am definitely signing up.The site offers educational video, IM between members, start clubs, post classified ads, etc. You can use the site to post your own blog and upload videos. It's basically a social networking site aimed specifically at those in or interested in the culinary world. It looks like a great way to meet other culinarians.
The only problem is Masterchef seems to be pretty new. There isn't much content. However, what content there is looks interesting and informative. And the site looks clean and pretty easy to navigate. Now Masterchef needs a few more members and it'll be a great online food community.
You don't have to be gregarious or adventurous to start or be part of a community garden. If you're lucky enough to live in a neighborhood with an available spot of ground, say 80'x80', you have the beginnings of a great social experiment. Here in Boulder, this was inclusive to the development plans in my neighborhood so procuring growing space wasn't a problem. I thought getting people to sign up and rent plots (this wasn't my job) would be an issue. Not so. It was what should be grown that got thorny. Most wanted veggies and flowers. Some wanted only flowers and vice versa. In the end it was an even mix. We even had edible flowers: I ate carnation petals right from the plant, and later 
If you read a lot of personal food blogs, you will occasionally here someone refer to CSA or a delivery from CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, a cooperative system in which goods from a farm are delivered directly to a consumer. The way it works is that people purchase the rights to part of a farmer's crop prior to the beginning of the season. Once the crops start coming in - and some farmers provide everything from vegetables and herbs to fresh eggs and meat, though most primarily provide produce - a portion of the harvest is delivered to each subscriber each week, either directly or to a central location where it can be picked up. The farmers benefit from having a direct sale, and the consumers benefit because they are getting ultra-fresh produce and supporting their community. 
Earlier this week, Nicole 
Sure, the fast food industry has recently spurred non-fiction books, documentaries and plenty of investigative
journalism, but fan fiction? In a similar vein to the LiveJournal community of 
The internet is chock full of recipe sites ranging from the good to the bad. Usually, when I'm
researching a recipe, I use a combination of Google and my favorite recipe aggregation sites. The CookbookWiki
aims to collect all the world's culinary traditions and recipes into one wiki site. Wikipedia already does a good job
of covering food, but perhaps with CookbookWiki's tight focus, it can be an even more invaluable resource for chefs and
amateur cooks alike. They already have an aggressive 
Cakes so amazing they'd be hard to cut into
Fruit juice: An invitation to diabetes?
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