what other food sites do you frequent?

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I hop among several all the time. Each has plus/minus aspects. Two of the ones I USED to go to have dropped their forums and have gone to facebook?!? Not a big FB user at all, and what's there seems to be a mish-mash of stuff.

Where to you go, other than here?

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None. I used to hang on Epicurious years ago, but haven't hit that one in eons. 

During an enforced hiatus from Chowhound (how's that for a euphemism...?) I looked and couldn't find any where the conversations are as good as they are here. 

Most of the others are either utter free-for-alls, so tightly modded that they're purely academic, or they're high-falutin' folks who are wayyy to impressed with their own abilities to buy the most expensive stuff out there (OMG you mean she put storebought ITALIAN olive oil on her PAELLA? WTF? My 6-year-old knows that you should use organic cold-pressed from a hand-turned stone!!)

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Serious eats

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Lthforum.com, which is an excellent source for Chicago area restaurant and food-related info. (I just lurk there but there are many Chicago hounds who also post on lth, generally under the same screen names.)

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eGullet, Cook's Issues, gardenweb.

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eGullet

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I wondered where mamachef and huiray had gone to. 
I haven't seen anything with a format that is as easy to use as CH.

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• Epicurious - mainly for their library of classic recipes.

• Serious Eats - mainly for their taste tests (though I'm sometimes put off by their obvious need to constantly create content, as some of it comes across as time-wasting filler).

• eGullet - where I feel like a fly on the wall amongst those who have far more knowledge and experience around food and cooking than I do. I consider myself more of a spectator there than anything else, and I'm okay with that. When I first attempted to create Char Siu at home, I learned more about it from eGullet than anywhere else by a long stretch.

• Pioneer Woman - although I'm beginning to associate her style of cooking akin to Paula Deen for ranch hands. My experience with her Potatoes au Gratin recipe I documented in another thread, which has made me somewhat wary of her respect for ingredients. I still like her visuals and some of her ideas, but don't have a single 'favorite' recipe from her site, despite all of the gushing her fans make over her every move.

• My Kitchen Snippets - hands down one of my favorite food-related websites. The author doesn't have the pressure to churn out content, and I've learned an enormous amount about Asian cooking from her posts and links she's provided when using someone else's recipe or idea as a starting point. Her recipe for Crab Legs in Black Pepper Sauce from 2007 has become a staple in my repertoire, even though I use it for chicken:

http://www.mykitchensnippets.com/2007/11/crab-legs-in-black-pepper-sauce.html

I know that with a chicken breast, a bundle of green onions, and the staples in my fridge and cupboards, I can have a restaurant-quality meal on my plate with very little effort and in record time.

• Market Manila - simply because I'm interested in the author's non-traditional way of presenting a food blog and the content, although I freely admit to having never once prepared any recipe he's published, that I recall.

• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project at http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/
I find their growing collection of digitized historic cookbooks fascinating.

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There are many subs on reddit but

http://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/

is my favorite.

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SE, Roadfood.com, tastespotting.com(the Food porn of the net!), a few bloggers. I used to be active in a BBQ forum, but have not been there for years

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I was a member of the original Cook's Illustrated discussion boards back in the day. At some point, that forum shut down and I drifted over to eGullet for several years. There was a great sense of community and friendliness. Weekly "food blogs" hosted by one or two posters who documented about food in their life for a solid week. Those weekly blogs were so popular! I'm not sure what happened but the food blogs eventually dried up and there was a general crankiness afoot at eGullet. That's when I found Chowhound. I was attracted to CH by the focus on food and the friendly nature of the discussions. Nowadays a lot of the traffic on CH is neither food related nor friendly, so I've been checking out eGullet again. FWIW, I think that eGullet cleaned house and it seems to be returning to its roots (food focused, friendly). I've posted this information at least twice before and both times the moderators at CH have deleted it. So I'm not optimistic that CH moderators will allow an honest discussion about CH competitors, but there you have it. I'm spending more time on eGullet these days and far less on CH.

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I drop in on egullet occasionally but there's not much conversation there for somebody at my (strictly amateur homecook) level. Mostly I fill in my time by finding recipes on pinterest and browsing through the blogs they came from if they look interesting. I tried a food group on facebook but it went through three different iterations in an attempt to control trolling, and I gave up.

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eGullet and serious eats.

Mostly eGullet.

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seriouseats when I'm looking for a serious recipe, usually pizza or meat related, eater.com for food news, same for thebraiser.com and grubstreet.com, grubgrade.com for a fast food fix.

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There's another very active forum called "Mouthfuls" that might be of interest: http://mouthfulsfood.com/forums/

Oddly, I've tried to join several times but never have received the confirmation email. I wonder if they know something about me that I don't know?

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Roadfood.com. I've been frequenting the site for a long time, and it's one of the "constants" of my internet reading / posting. A good, good site.

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serious eats. looks like i'll try egullet again. and a look at cooking issues. this is a no-caps lazy day.

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I just discovered ZergNet (the food & drink category: http://www.zergnet.com/?v=7).

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Discuss Cooking

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CompuServe's Cooks Online forum.

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Podcast forums. Most food & beverage related podcasts maintain websites and many of those sites invite listeners to further the podcast conversation via forum. It's fun to discuss with fellow listeners the various topics covered by cast-hosts.

Some of the podcasts on my rotation include:
Food is the New Rock
KCRW Good Food
Spilled Milk
Last Chance Foods @ WYNC
Wine for Normal People
Graperadio
New Books in Food

Anyone else tap into these gems?

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What happened to tastespotting? I used to enjoy going on there...it's not updated frequently and they're currently posting links to christmas recipes... Chowhound and Tastespotting used to be fun for me and now i'm losing some interest in both...

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I used to play on egullet but its UK/Ireland board died the death as folk moved on to other things.

I now also play on Hungry Onion which has an increasingly active UK board

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