While I will at times touch upon those things that are bad enough to be amusing or popular enough to be evil, I'd much rather highlight those things which are good. To this end I've compiled a list of links to food sites which I like, as well as a list of cookbooks and cookbook authors which I think are excellent. A good tip on buying cookbooks is to look on the back of the jacket to see who is recommending it. If Craig Clairborne, or James Beard, or Julia Child liked the book, odds are that you will too. Personally, I'm not a big fan of recipes.
Recipes are the rules of grammar of the culinary world.
They allow us to communicate intelligently, but unless we can see beyond them, we have no poetry. That being said, bear in mind that well constructed prose can be awfully tasty. Eventually I'll put up some more recipes on the Gastronomer site. But even then, I'll have nowhere near the over 50,000 recipes which you can access through the web sites listed in the Recipe Links section. The Topical Essay section is an attempt to deal with the idea that food is about more than just eating.