Chowhound.com is a great reference
Chowhound.com is a great reference if you’re looking for restaurant recommendations pretty much anywhere in the country, but the search functionality is poorly implemented and the message boards (one per metro area) aren’t organized at all. I can run into great information one time, and it’s sometimes impossible to go back and find it again. To solve that problem (at least for myself), I installed a wiki that I’m using to keep track of restaurant information in LA. When I find things on chowhound that look interesting/appealing, I can keep a log of them, and then go back through and update it when i’ve visited the restaurant. Here’s my burgeoning restaurant guide.
Related to chowhound, but broader in scope, I recently found egullet.com. It’s a pretty huge website and set of forums about cooking, eating, drinking, pretty much everything related to food. In particular it has great wine forums and a very active cooking forum. Recipes, reviews of gas ranges, listings of favorite < $10 wines, and information on brining meat, the site and its forums an incredible fount of information.
The forum seems to be full of people in various food industries..wine buyers, food scientists, chefs, cookbook authors, even Anthony Bourdain is a regular contributor.
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rannva
Through some strange improvisational surfing I ended up at upcoming.org and saw your note about GBV and their upcoming concert at the House of Blues. I also noticed the haiku you said someone had posted on your site and thought to myself - nice haiku. Then I realized - I wrote it!
When I was in my ‘haiku mode’ a while back… Still love GBV (saw them at Spaceland this summer, Bob still drinks beer on stage) and will definitely see them at HoB.
All the best to you.
Oct 4th, 2003
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