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I'm very bummed. I'm glad I saved links to a few dozen items I'd found there, but since I could search for old ones easily I didn't save as many as I should.

Taste spotting let me to multiple other food blogs which I now read on a semi-regular basis. Like many blogs do, it aggregated content from many other sites. If I found myself being lead to the other sites many times I'd start reading that site as well.

I'd read elsewhere of copyright issues, but have no direct knowledge. Since each image had very little commentary and linked to a page somewhere else it seems like many potential issues could have been solved if the submitters were limited to the linked sites' owners.

Many times I've picked up a cookbook or magazine after being enticed by a bit of food porn on the cover. Tastespotting did that over and over again each day leading me to new recipes or ingredients. It wasn't ad-heavy, so the main recipients of any ad revenue were the downstream sites. They're the ones losing out from my not being able to find them now.

A thought I had is "which season?". Supposedly N.Z. lamb is "more earth friendly" than other lamb that isn't raised on pastures that do well with rainfall rather than irrigation. Also, it's been reported that fruits in season from the other hemisphere have a lower carbon footprint than local fruit that's been in cold storage for months. So if your locale isn't especially fertile by some hard rules you shouldn't be raising your own food at all. ( Or at least some foods )

For all the beating it takes, some long distance shipping is pretty efficient, at least efficient enough to make food that's been shipped 1000's of miles cost competitive with food raised closer to home.

So what if it turns out that in an area with cheaper land that doesn't require irrigation and needs less fertilizer can produce a product that even when you factor in shipping to the other hemisphere happens to beat out the local factory farm produce? Would that mean that tomatoes are now in season from October to March? Should a location with a 3-month season be "allowed" to grow something when another location has a 6-month season and uses less fossil fuel? ( Even factoring in shipping?)

No telling if Gordon is serious. Heck, just saying it and getting people to discuss the topic is worthwhile though.

If you just follow AB's recipes exactly you've missed the whole point of the show. He doesn't just spew out a recipe, he spends the show telling you the why. Armed with the knowledge from the rest of the show you can add or remove bits, alter the cooking process or make substitutions with more knowledge of what the outcome will be.

I also am not a big recipe follower, which is why Good Eats is a good show for me. I don't need yet another cookie recipe, but I could use info into what makes a cookie, crispy, chewy, or cakey.

Well, Wine.com is off my Christmas list. While they argue they're bringing the laws they disagree with to light they're doing it by messing with their competitors. I'd have had a chuckle if they'd been slapped with a RICO case for repeated attempts to illegally import wine into NY state.

I'd love to buy whatever I want from whomever I want. But I was very much against the Surpreme Court's decision to force states to make changes for internet alcohol purchases. The states currently have the right to regulate alcohol sales in their state. I'm not comfortable with retailers in another state pressuring the Federal Gov't to force their way in. If your state has laws you don't like, you fix it.
I like to do my shopping at BevMo on Sundays. In some areas other than my own that's illegal. I have no right to lobby for someone else to change their local laws.

Alcohol isn't the only thing regulated on a state by state basis. Porn, BB-Guns, Archery equipment, pets and produce all have regulations governing their sale in different states. It should be up to the people in those states to sort out their own regulations.

I don't consider it an onerous requirement that if you put "clone free" on your package that it must be truthful. I'm sure the clone-o-phobes wouldn't want that label to be put on cloned beef, so like with every other label now, there is a requirement that it be true.

So it's just a plain false statement that farmers will not be able to label their meat as not being the product of a clone.

From the front page:

"we're just marinating a bit longer, but tastespotting will be back shortly..."

WAIT! DONT WORRY! I just went on to the tastespotting website and it says that the site will be back up and running shortly!!! I am sooooo happy now!!!!

@fotocuisine Regarding Food Gawker, we are definitely rejecting submissions. The photo quality will continue to increase (to get onto Food Gawker) as the quantity of posts increases.

As far as image resizing is concerned, we are just cropping and not resizing similar to TS. The occasional pixelation that you are seeing is due to a reduction of image quality to 94%. We just upped it to 96%. Since we aren't monetizing the site currently and paying for hosting on our on dime, we need to stay wary of our hosting bandwidth usage. We hope to not reduce image quality in the near future.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who has visited the site. The response has been really positive so far!

2 things about these tastespotting copies:

okey, I love that all these tastespotting copies are coming up but,

1. i liked that they rejected stuff, and i know it ticked people off, and would leave me scratching my head as to why some stuff was up and some wouldn't (they rejected two of mine that kinda made me rethink some stuff) but i LIKED that. and i think that is what needed in a replacement.

2. Tastespotting either requested a 250x250 pixel photo or they would cut 250x250 out of your picture, they didn't resize.
these posted links above seem to be resizing or shrinking to fit in an area that they don't fit, therefor the pictures are pixalated (spell?) and look bad.

I SO miss Tastespotting. Although since it's departure, I have found myself eating less in the afternoon.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were a site just like our dearly departed Tastespotting, with the all the food porn pictures that linked back to blogs, AND had a handy search function.