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Back in high school, I loved woot -- a site that offers a great deal on one item of technology per day. The idea of selling selected items for low prices has really caught on, and now I subscribe to a tons of these sites (especially fashion ones, which are amazing).

I finally learned about a site like this for foodies, and I'm so excited to see what deals they plan to offer. The site is called OneFoodieGoodie, and they sell one item (in limited supply) every 24 hours. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to view past goodies, so it's hard to say what type of items the site typically features. Today, they're selling travel salt and pepper shakers, which are cute but definitely not necessary for someone like me.

Do any of you use this site regularly? What do you think?

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Remember the good old days? You'd lounge out on the porch in the summer, licking away at your Slo-Poke Sucker, Jr.? Sadly, I'm too young (my summers days were spent at sleep-away camp, divided into organized activities like volleyball and instructional swim) -- but if you do have nostalgia for foods or sweets that are no longer easily available, check out Hometown Favorites, a site dedicated to selling food items that are currently difficult to find.

The site features a grocer, a gift center, and a candy store that lets you search by decade (though admittedly, there's a lot of overlap). Some of the items are pretty recent and others I don't think really qualify as hard to find, but it was still fun to scroll through and see what the store has to offer.

My favorite "oh yeahhhh..." moment was when I spotted Maypo oatmeal -- my dad loves the stuff and used to make it all the time when I was little. What do you think, any old favorites? Other sites offering similar products?

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Have you ever wished that you could make a Cherry Slurpee at home? Maybe you're a fan of Benihana's Japanese Fried Rice and want to recreate it in your kitchen. Then I do believe there's a website out there for you. Top Secret Recipes is a site that says it has broken the codes on most of the famous restaurant dishes out there so that you can make them on your own, without a trip to Applebee's, the Cheesecake Factory or Boston Market.

They've got a deep archive of recipes, although most of them require payment to access. There is a good stash of free recipes, including one for Arby's classic Jamocha Shake (which has always been a weakness of mine). It's a fun site to surf around as well, just to check out all the restaurant-style possibilities.

[via JoshSpear.com]

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There certainly isn't a lack of good recipe sites out there on the web, especially with the number of food bloggers who share their personal recipes on their blogs, but I coudn't halp but point out Yummy Fun because of how cute the site is. (The site is very loud, so turn down your speakers! - Thanks, Barry!)

Yummy Fun is a colorful, interactive site that comes from Clare Crespo, author of Hey There, Cupcake! and The Secret Life of Food, both books that find the fun in food. Yummy Fun is probably geared toward kids, with the cartoon recipe box that has recipes for such things as Bugs in Amber and Chocolate Moose, but I think it's still fun to poke through.

The concept of a restaurant guidebook is becoming increasingly outdated. The books are rarely up to date and, although they can be carried around by travelers easily, just can't offer the user the same kind of immediate response - and an interactive one, at that - as online, user-driven restaurant guides. Chowhound, Yelp and Citysearch are some of the leaders of this genre, along with similar user-review driven online forums. Zagat, which was unique in the restaurant guide book field in that it based its "reviews" on user commentary, recently decided that it needed to move to a similar online format, where users could offer real-time opinions, in order to remain competitive.

Or, at least, to attempt to remain competitive.

Is there any more room left in the restaurant discussion board field for a newcomer? Given that people have expressed dissatisfaction with the way that Chowhound is run (and they way that the site looks), there just might be.

[via eater la ]

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