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.
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.