It's the year of the chile pepper (Tribune

It's the year of the chile pepper (Tribune Chronicle)
How do you spell it, chili or chile? I'm not talking about the bowl of steamy, spicy beans and sauce that is the source of competitions as heated as the peppers in the recipe. I'm talking about the fruit itself, those hot peppers we eat as a form of self-torture.

Check it out -- here's a variety of Web sites just for foodies (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
We all need inspiration. As much as I like leafing through cookbooks, watching the Food Network and reading food magazines, I find it fascinating to surf the Web looking for unusual sources of food information and recipes.

Reader's Digest chocolate fantasies (Contra Costa Times)
Flipping through "Chocolate Sensations," an almost coffee-table-sized 81/2-by-10-inch illustrated volume with one picture and recipe per page, reawakened all my baking aspirations: Chocolate Dipped Palmiers, Pain au Chocolate, Chocolate Banana Cream Puffs, Chocolate Angel Food Cake, Frosted Chocolate Rum Cake.

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