The web is full of wild and wonderful foodie sites. Here are some locally focused ones I enjoy reading and recommend. I'm also building a list of sites that will sell you ingredients you may have difficulty finding locally. They're indicated in bold.
Alltop, a really terrific directory by software and techno-world wizard Guy Kawasaki of links to good sites in every subject area you can think of, has just picked EatWashington for its Food Section! DigitalMediaWire writes: "Each category of Alltop blogs are chosen by a group of individuals invited by Guy and his team to help select the blogs that should be featured." I'm tickled pink!
Washington food scene blogs
A Mighty Appetite - Kim O'Donnel's blog on WashingtonPost.com
Johnna Knows Good Food
brunchdc
Recipe & autobiography blogs
Cook Eat FRET This is my kind of cooking - stuff that goes wrong, and she's not afraid to 'fess up.
Dorie Greenspan Queen of baking and a wonderful woman.
Orangette Interesting autobiographical food blog with good recipes
101 Cookbooks healthy and mostly vegetarian recipes tested from cookbooks and also plenty of original ones usefully sorted by type and by ingredient
Figs, Bay & Wine calls itself a diary of Mediterranean food in New York. Recipes with informative essays.
David Lebowitz the blog of the Chez Panisse trained, Paris-based pastry chef whose recipes go beyong dessert.
Ingredient sources
Kalustyans For unusual spices. But it also sells pretty much everything, from agar agar to rosewater, 305 different items under "Beans & Lentils", and more.
Grateful Palate A wonderful resource for unusual foods but especially for its range of very good bacon and pig products.
Marina Market is run by Andrea Rowe, DC-educated but now in the other Washington. It's an international food store that carries Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch and German foods. 1 888 728 0837.
Excellent political blogs
The Washington Note Steve Clemons' highly informed, informative and often irreverent regular update on what goes on behind and in front of the capital's political stage.
NotionsCapital Mike Licht's take on events and culture in Washington DC.