So here are fifteen more social media sites and applications to help you get informed about food, find other foodies, find recipes, and perhaps most importantly, find the best ingredients. As always, please share your favorite resources that aren't on this list in the comments below.
Get Informed: Food News and Info
1. The Foodie BlogRoll - The Foodie BlogRoll is a directory of over 4700 foodie blogs, making it perhaps the most comprehensive food blogger directory on the web. The site also operates a blogroll widget that is embedded on a large number of food blogs across the web and has already seen over 87 million views this year.
2. Alltop Food News - Alltop describes itself as a magazine rack for the web. The site is an automated aggregator bringing together feeds from top blogs and news sources in over 600 topic areas. Their Food News category offers links to posts from an exceptionally large collection of top foodie blogs on the web.
3. Digg Food & Drink - Digg certainly isn't a great place to find recipes or have intelligent discussions about cooking with other foodies, but it is a great place to get the latest news about the food industry. Just be forewarned that not all of it is appetizing -- like the recent front page story about a central Florida man who claimed to have found the remains of a dead rodent in his can of Pepsi. Yuck!
4. Food Essentials - Though it still has a ways to go before it can claim to be totally comprehensive, Food Essentials is a must-visit resource for anyone concerned with what's actually in their food. The site lists nutrition information, gluten content, ingredients, and potential allergens for a wide range of food products.
Find Fellow Foodies
5. BakeSpace - BakeSpace is one of the biggest foodie-centric social networks on the web, with discussion boards, blogs, recipe swapping, and other standard social networking features. One of their neatest offerings, though, is the BakeSpace Mentors Program, which connects members interested in teaching a specific culinary skill to those who are eager to learn.
6. Foodbuzz - With nearly 30,000 members, Foodbuzz combines it all -- recipe sharing, restaurant reviews, forums, blogs, photos, and more. Taking a cue from Facebook, Foodbuzz also offers fan pages for brands such as Stonyfield Farms, Newman's Own, and King Arthur Flour, among others.
7. FoodCandy - FoodCandy isn't the largest social network for foodies, but it is a very tight-knit community. The site offers blogs, photos, videos, events, and discussion forums.
8. Eats.com - Eats.com is a huge restaurant rating and review site, but it's also an active social network. On the site you can find eaters in your area who share similar tastes in food and find out where your friends are eating. One feature that is rather unique to the site is that users can rate specific dishes from restaurants with menus attached.
9. Book of Cooks - Are you a good cook who wants to earn some extra cash? Or maybe you're a terrible cook but love good food and crave a home cooked meal. Either way, Book of Cooks has you covered. This innovative site is a marketplace for home cooks and personal chefs who will prepare a meal for you in your home.
Get Your Ingredients
10. Eat Well Guide - Eat Well Guide offers local listings for all sorts of sustainable, organic food producers and merchants. From farmers, CSAs, ranches, and farmers markets to wineries, butchers, orchards and restaurants, the web site is an amazing resource for finding fresh, locally grown food in the US and Canada.
11. Regional Best - Regional Best is an online marketplace for high-quality, locally produced artisan foods from small, independent producers.
Drool Over Food (Then Cook It)
12. foodgawker - The art of food porn (which is completely safe for work) is photographing food in such a way that just looking at the photo makes your mouth water. One of the best places to find great food porn is food gawker.
13. TasteSpotting - The great thing about food porn sites like TasteSpotting is that in addition to making your tummy rumble, they also link to the recipes behind the food photos on the original food blogs, making them also a great way to find new things to cook.
14. Dropfood - Dropfood isn't as large as foodgawker or TasteSpotting, but the food it showcases is no less mouthwatering. If you're looking for a site to make you hungry for your next meal, this is a good one.
15. Photograzing - I've been inspired to cook many a meal after drooling over the food porn featured at the Photograzing site, which is part of the Serious Eats food blog.
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