I don’t spend a lot of time checking out web-sites, but I do know and like Culinate for its articles on food and cooking, which are informative and interesting. Good interaction, too, among those who participate. I write two pieces a month under the heading, Local Flavors. [visit site]

A web-site that features forty or so works from a number of authors, including me. For some reason my tofu recipes are favorites and will come up first, but then it moves on to include other kinds of dishes as well. [visit site]

I have written for Gourmet’s on-line magazine about micaceous pots, a Purepechan festival, and other food-related but not recipe based topics. [visit site]

Chow is perky and fun and lively and I’ve found some interesting discussions of such subjects as Sunday Supper and eating alone. [visit site]

My farmer friend, Carol Ann Sayle of Boggy Creek Farm contributes to the Atlantic’s website, which is how I got there. as does Greek author Aglaia Kremezi. A relatively small and erudite site. [visit site]

A straightforward blog that features lots of vegetarian recipes. [visit site]

This site labels itself the #1 Site for Grass-Fed Food and facts about it. Useful if you’re looking for grass fed bison, say, and you live in NYC. [visit site]

I get Grist every day (“Ask Umbra”), which is good on environmental issues, but I also like their food section which often has a political bent, especially articles by Tom Philpott. [visit site]

Videos of farmers, food artisans and others involved in growing, producing and otherwise creating our food. [visit site]

A site for gardeners and promoting the most local food of all, globally. [visit site]

All the scary political food issues you’ll want to take action on are presented here. [send email]

This is the web-site for Slow Food with access to local chapters, Ark and Presidia foods, national activities and more. [visit site]

An alliance of Californians - farmers, eaters, health advocates, chefs, business owners, policy makers and many more - who are working to create a sustainable food system for our state in one generation. Even if you’re not a Californian, this site is full of good information about agriculture and sustainability and provides a model that other states might follow. [visit site]

Civil Eats, in their words, “promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities.” Excellent book reviews and commentary on modern food. [visit site]

Local harvest is a useful directory of foods that are grown and sold in specific locales. You can use this site to find a farmers’ market near you, or a farm, or a CSA and more, including restaurants that use local foods - useful for when you’re traveling. [visit site]

The newsletter covers a lot of topics that relate to health, organics, global warming, and food politics. It comes weekly, bringing high-quality information. [visit site]

“Chew the right thing” is the handle, here. Lots of succinct articles on what’s happening in food and food politics, from GMOs, to food labeling, raw milk, Monsanto and more. [visit site]

Clifford Wright is an expert on many things, but especially the foods of the Mediterranean. His recipes go far beyond most dishes we’ve heard of, and you can find them on this website as well as in his cookbooks. [visit site]

Amanda is a visionary when it comes to educating the educators who tell people about the food choices they should make. She does workshops that really connect people to food in a way that’s vivid, meaningful, and that goes way beyond numbers. I’ve attended some of her workshops and taught with Amanda and come away very impressed. [visit site]

Terra lives in rural central Illinois where she runs The Farm Connection and writes the most useful and interesting notes for her brother Henry’s farm, which you can get weekly. (Henry grows more than 650 varieties of vegetables, which he sells at the Evanston farmers market near Chicago.) She has recently written a magnificent book called The Seasons on Henry’s Farm, which brings the world of farming sharply into focus like nothing else. (You can order the book directly from Terra via her website.) [visit site]