Consult these sites for everything you ever wanted to know about food but were too afraid to ask:

BBC – a neat package of recipes, articles and message-boards arranged by categories
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

Chowhound – a message board for adventurous food lovers
http://www.chowhound.com

Cooking with Google – enter a few ingredients into this site, which is not affiliated with Google, and get back suggested recipes
http://www.researchbuzz.org/cookin_with_google.shtml

Epicurious - Gourmet’s and Bon Appetite’s site features thousands of recipes and cooking instructions for chefs of all levels
http://www.epicurious.com/

E-Gullet – a high-brow forum for culinary connoisseurs
http://www.egullet.org

Good Cooking – cooing guides, recipes and more links than you’ll ever need
http://www.goodcooking.com

Global Gourmet – articles, recipes, discussions and a cooking calculator
http://www.globalgourmet.net

Menu Pages – Manhattan’s “ultimate menu directory”
http://www.menupages.com

New York Times Food section – the food section of record
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/dining/