We’Ve Got Some Tasty Web Links

With new Web sites for foodies popping up all the time, you may be wondering which ones are worth your while.

Brill’s Content online (BrillsContent.com), which tracks the Internet along with more traditional media, offers this list of the top 10 culinary sites in cyberspace:

CyberDiet (www.cyberdiet.com): Customized nutrition profiles, meal planner and a tracking system that counts calories and fat grams.

Digital Chef (www.digitalchef.com): Sources for hard-to-find ingredients and professional cookware.

Epicurious (food.epicurious.com): Articles from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines and a searchable database of more than 8,000 recipes.

Food & Wine Online (www.pathfinder.com/FoodWine): An Internet edition of the magazine, with archived articles and a searchable wine guide.

The Global Gourmet (www.globalgourmet.com): Includes recipes, cookbook reviews and a cooking conversion calculator.

The Kitchen Link (www.kitchenlink.com): Probably the Web’s most extensive list of food-related links.

Meals For You (www.mealsforyou.com): Nutritional breakdowns, printable shopping lists and recipes that are adjustable by serving size.

StarChefs (www.starchefs.com): Interviews and recipes from the likes of Julia Child and Emeril Lagasse.

Tufts University Nutrition Navigator (navigator.tufts.edu): Lists and rates nutrition-related Web sites.

Veggies Unite! (www.vegweb.com): Some 3,000 meatless recipes, with a meal planner and a glossary.

Foiled again

Feeling nostalgic for more low-tech cookery? Swanson is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a limited-edition line of frozen “TV dinners” in the original packaging, featuring a photo of the food on a screen surrounded by a wood-grain console. The old aluminum trays — deep-sixed in 1986 for microwaveable models — are back, too.

In case you were wondering, the TV dinner came about because Swanson needed to do something with 250 tons of surplus turkey in its inventory.

Scout them out

Another familiar favorite, Girl Scout cookies, are back in season. Joining such mainstays as Thin Mints and Samoas in the eight-flavor lineup are two new varieties: Lemon Drops, crisp with creamy lemon chips, and low-fat Apple Cinnamon cookies shaped like apples and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.

Look for Girl Scouts selling them around town, or call 747-8091.