"southern living" news and stories

• The shuttering of a Fort Worth Krispy Kreme could create more traffic for local doughnut shops -- or send carb-starved crowds to rival chain Dunkin' Donuts.
• Southern Living magazine took notice of the Fairmount neighborhood, where a BYOB Egyptian eatery and a noveau taco shop serving spicy fish cakes and tenderloin tamales jostle for foodies' affections.
• It's no longer heretical to make eggnog with vodka or ditch the New Year's Champagne for a more affordable Italian bubbly.
• Cinnamon buns and salmon mousse make a holiday visit to gourmet grocer Central Market worthwhile.

Sometimes I wonder to myself how some of my friends can even say something like "I couldn't get any work done today. I was on MySpace all day long." On MySpace? All day? What on earth are you looking at on MySpace for eight hours?!?!

Because it doesn't occur to me that they probably think the same thing of me when I say was online looking at recipes all day long.

I could surf and browse recipe databases all day long. In the morning, look for something to make for lunch. In the afternoon, look for something to make for dinner that night. At night while the tv is flickering in the background, look for recipes for the weekend. Yep, I could look at recipes all day long, espceially since there are several large databases of recipes online, the newest of which I came across, the Kitchen Assistant. It is located on the food channel (web channel, not tv) of aol, and has two sections. One section consists of 20,000+ recipes published in magazines like Cooking Light and Southern Living. A second section consists of recipes submitted by users, so it's not quite as robust, but it's growing. Take a peek. You can browse through categories or search if you already have something in mind.