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Nibbling your way through cyberspace

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Have you ever gone surfing for your supper? It certainly beats ripping pages you will never read out of magazines or getting caught for hours on the phone trying to wheedle your granny's secret recipe out of her.

Browsing the Internet can offer anything from snippets from food films, magazines and E-zines to contacts with cooks you will never meet.

There are thousands of recipes, shortcuts to other food sites, interactive nutritionists, Internet sommeliers, calculators to convert weights and temperatures, and quick guides on what to feed the kiddies.

Below is a personal choice of my favourite food sites worth visiting. Just do not forget you have to stop surfing sometime and cook the dinner.

Epicurious (http://www.epicurious. com) Accessing this will give you Conde Nast's natty food magazines, Bon Appetite and Gourmet. The site features such things as a wine pick of the week from writer Anthony Dias Blue and a tasting panel plus articles like Etiquette: How To Eat A Mango Without Requiring A Bath Afterward.

But what is getting Epicurious so talked about is its whopping 7,600-recipe database with the additional luxury of being able to search by ingredient, technique or phrase. That is the theory, anyway - typing in mango got 98 very strange offerings, most of which did not seem to highlight the fruit.

Electronic Gourmet Guide (http://www.foodwine.com/ food) A superb multi-award-winning site, it is frequently updated and there is tonnes to read. Global Gourmet's FoodScape has a database of more than 1,000 recipes plus tips, reviews, cookbooks and interviews. Its worldwide slant means there is a Hong Kong page.
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