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One of my absolute favorite books in my kitchen is Baking by Dorie Greenspan.  I go to this book all the time for recipes and ideas.  Dorie has such a wonderful take on classic recipes.  Recently, I stumbled across her blog at www.doriegreenspan.com and I am loving it.  Dorie posts recipes and talks about her adventures.  It’s a great place to go and browse around.  If you haven’t read any of Dorie’s books I highly suggest the Baking cookbook.  It has everything including cookies, custards, cakes, breads, muffins, etc.  You certainly won’t be disappointed.  I really love the recipe she has for carrot cake and the snickery squares.  If you want to listen to a great interview piece, then check out this link on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6514512 . I just love Dorie.  She really makes you love baking, like a good teacher should!  She has a wonderful sense of humor and shares great stories.

Being part of the food blogging community I come across tons of great food community sites.  If you want to check out food videos created by everyday people not food personalities, then many of these sites will be enjoyable for you. 

Group Recipes is food site that allows you to share recipes.  The interface is quite nice and it’s easy to use.  They also have a feature called the recipe robot that helps you find recipes that suit your tastes.  Each member is allowed to create a profile and “make” friends.  When you make friends with other members you can easily share recipes amongst yourselves.  This site use to have a TV feature with videos from members, but it doesn’t seem to exist any longer.  Although, this is the beta version.  They may bring it back.  The web url is www.grouprecipes.com. 

IFood Tv is based more around the “video” aspect of recipe sharing.  The web url is www.ifood.tv. (That’s a little odd, so if you like this site then you should probably bookmark it)  The food on this site spans all types of cuisine from American to Korean and everything in between.  Members can also share there recipe without the video.  This site has an interesting blog feature where members can post articles for the community to read.

Im Cooked (www.imcooked.com) is a food related youtube.  At least that’s how I like to think of it.  The format is very similar to youtube.  The interface is pretty basic and is mostly about the videos. 

Yummr is more involved community site. (www.yummr.com)  They do polls, quizzes, reviews.  They also have the usuals that you find elsewhere - videos, recipe sharing, and food discussions.  This site is really quite interactive and a fun one if you want to do more than share recipes. 

Recently in my food research I stumbled across this old audio interview on NPR with Harold McGee, the author of On Food and Cooking.  This two part series is so interesting.  If you love the science behind food, you will love these audio files.  It’s fun to listen to McGee talk about such things as how smell relates to taste, the ripening of fruit, how the food industry is mimicking flavors and ripening underripe fruits more quickly, how microwaves work, etc.  Here are the two links to this series. 

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4265051

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4244177

I don’t know about you, but I have always had this big fascination with Thomas Keller.  I admire him and his skill so much that I can’t even tell you.  He is most famous for The French Laundry.  I love his philosophy of food and his ability to articulate it to others.  Epicurious has multiple videos with Thomas Keller and I am enjoying watching them.  Here is a video with Thomas Keller discussing some food questions, Enjoy!