Very fine is my valentine. Very fine and very mine. —Gertrude Stein

I have been spending way too much time on the new Gourmet magazine website; I think I'm in love. As I visited the Dinner for One section for the third time today just to see if more menus had been added, more of Gertrude Stein's poem "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson" ran through my head: "A very little snail/A medium-sized turkey/A small band of sheep/A fair orange tree."

Gourmet.com seems to hold everything under the sun. First there's the recipe search providing access to all of Gourmet's recipe archives. Then there's From the Magazine, which holds works published as far back as the 1940s. Naturally, there's M.F.K. Fisher, but there's also work by Robert P. Tristram Coffin, whom I had never heard of before, but whose essay "Night of Lobster," originally published in 1946, was an unexpected pleasure. You can also watch whole episodes of Gourmet's public television show, Diary of a Foodie. But so far my favorite section is the one titled Food Politics, filled with a thoughtful array of content, including a feature by local treasure Jon Rowley about fishing for lampreys ("boneless, parasitic... living fossils") in a tiny Native American village in Alaska.

Like new love, though, the best thing about Gourmet.com is all the possibility. It's brand-new and they'll be adding more content and I am looking forward to everything. recommended

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