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Trends: Don’t worry it won’t cause cavities – Daily Candy

http://www.dailycandy.com

I wasn’t sure where to categorize this since it spans multiple categories but this is a good place to spot trends and discover new things. They blog on the latest finds in fashion, cooking, beauty, deals, services, arts & culture, and fun.  It cover several major cities like Boston, DC, Miami, San Francisco, London, and etc.  You can sign up for their email digests that could be tailored to your city.
From eco-friendly handbags made from recycled Chinese newspapers to low fat Holey Donuts, this is the site to find unique and hidden treasures.

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Cooking: Experimental Chefs – Crash Test Kitchen

http://www.crashtestkitchen.com

Crash Test Kitchen is a catchy video log about cooking, the cooking is done by two adventuresome regular folks named Waz and Lenny. Waz and Lenny are not professional chefs, they attempt to cook based on recipes they find. Its similar to the cooking show shown on PBS, called “America’s Test Kitchen”. They capture their cooking with a video camera and post it on the site. They do not hide their failures when their attempt fails.  Yeah, I hate seeing those chefs whip out some perfectly done gourmet dish in half an hour and talk about how easy it was to make it.  As for posting their videos on the web, personally I wouldn’t want the whole world to see me struggle to make mac and cheese. I’m proud to say I haven’t killed anyone with my cooking but the trick is to not cook at all.

Going back to the blog, its a personable blog where they sometimes recount their previous experience with the dish of interest. My only complaints with the blog are:

• They don’t post often enough since each of their posts is fun to read and watch. (We want more!)
• They should consider categorizing the recipes since I had to click on each month to figure out which recipes they had cooked.

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Cooking: Simply Recipes

http://www.elise.com/recipes

This is a great site to browse for new recipes and it contains yummy and belly rumbling pictures of dishes that have been tested by Elise or her parents. It has recipes in every category (appetizers, lunch, brunch, dinner, and so forth), type of meat, vegetarian, and etc. If you are interested in ethnic recipes, this site does not have a lot so you will need to look elsewhere. I found this site today by accident when I was looking at SiteMeter and came across a reference to it. Its a another good recipe reference my partner and I will be using along with allrecipes.com. The site author is Elise who started the weblog as a personal family site to maintain a collection of recipes. The site grew in popularity with about a million visitors per month and won several awards. The recipe collection are either from Elise’s family recipes or collected through external sources over the last 30 years. When I’m eating my canned spaghetti and meatballs, I can look at the pictures of food and pretend I’m eating the braised beef short ribs which by the way requires two days of preparation and cooking.

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