Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

The site also mentions a new site they're working on: Liquorious in alpha, devoted to, you guessed it - drinks! This may tide some of you over for a bit.

Thanks for taking into account my concerns, both FP daily and gawker are looking good and even though I have asked my hubby if we could take up the void left behind when TS left ('would love to, but seriously, we don't have the time'), I am glad someone is. Just hoping it/they will be close to as good as TS was. :)

@fotocusine: thanks for the input... though right now I'm not thinking I'll ever make mine that similar to tastespotting. I wouldn't be able to keep up with it! And I plan on rejected photos that I don't like, too, and maybe getting some dialouge going about what makes a good photo.

About the resizing, I'm going to nix it. Yesterday I thought I'd make all the photos as near to 500 px wide so it looks uniform and clean, but I check the site on a PC today and it looked crappy.

I do like food gawker a lot for its tastespottingness. Great job, Chuck!

I spent the weekend making my own tastespotting replacement since my wife and I pretty much can't live without it. I'm trying to expand upon the idea and have already added a few new features that tastespotting never had, like voting, comments and the ability to save your favorite posts. Hopefully it will get us through this dark time without tastespotting.

http://www.newtastings.com

If anyone has any ideas or features that they would have liked to have seen on tastespotting, please drop me a line and let me know.

We created a site similar to Tastespotting: www.recipemuncher.com

We did not want to create a copycat, so it's a bit different: instead of submiting pictures one by one you submit your blog and we automatically pull the pictures every time there is a new post.

The site is only 2 days old, but we'll work hard to make it a nice place to hang out ;)

Oops, I failed to include the phrase "to moderate" in my last reply about foodgawker. As in "it's going to be a pain to moderate" since it seems that every entry needs to be approved.

Tastespotting was one of those rare sites that consistently inspired me. I always wanted them to add a clipping feature so that I could keep track of the things I wanted to make.

Last night I scraped all of the pages in the Google cache, downloaded all the photos, and have a working copy of the Tastespotting archive sitting on my comptuer. I'm going to hold off on distributing it until I know more about what happened, not wanting to run into copyright issues or anger the friendly NOTCOTers.

I can't possibly believe that DocChuck's blatant trolling is the reason Tastespotting decided to shut down.

@SundayNiteDinner: Nice basic clone of Tastespotting there. It sounds like it's going to be a pain if it gets the amount of submissions that Tastespotting had.

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.

It's funny how so many people thought it was real and posted as if it were... probably because the Meatwater website was so thoroughly convincing!

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I'd want my best friends around, and we'd eat steak. Really really good steak. Prime rib or delmonico with a red wine and beef reduction. A delicious spinach salad. Some interesting fruity dessert, like the orange cardamom roasted pineapple we had at Solo. Yum.