Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, winner of the James Beard Award, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

The Center for Food Safety this site is a blend of information and action  you can take against food groups that are straight out of hell.  Use your wallet or your words to help bring an end to the stupidity that is genetically modified food.

Posie Gets Cozy, a fantastically dreamy blog made of lace and dried flowers, with hammocks and embroidered dish towels. Recipes are inspired and lovely and make me want to move to Virginia with a pack of dogs and raise tow-headed children who constantly get into berry bushes. Seriously, I lick the screen.

MetroFarm, The Online Magazine of Metropolitan Agriculture is about growing your own food on postage stamp sized lots.

Midwestern Women Make Good Wives has perfect recipes. Don’t follow them. Instead, read them like non-fiction and then in a fit of passion, recreate them from memory in your own kitchen. Just as a bit of information, midwestern men ALSO make good wives. Just sayin.

Bento boxes. Is there anything else to be said about them? Bento should be required, everywhere.

George Duran, home to Venezuelan chef-entertainer without comparison.  In a perfect world, Food Network would just run his shows plus those of goddess Nigella Lawson with a few Alton Brown shows thrown in, to keep us grounded, after the memorial show for butter witch Paula Deen and toothy Giada de Laurentiis.  They would have gotten trapped in a kitchen fire.

The Kitchn I hate this amazing, gorgeous, beautiful, awe-inspiring website because it is so classy, so encompassing, and because it comes up in my Google Reader as I’m trying to work, tempting me with things like corn and beer.  It’s very link-y, and very full of information that is far too useful.  Drat and curses.  Ok, I love it.