My Favorite Sites

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THE FOOD GEEK: Ron Kaplan a.k.a. Ronnie Suburban's favorite sites
Chicago foodie, online personality, co-owner of Highland Park-based Greenwood Associates Inc., which distributes industrial food ingredients. He says he's pretty much online from when he wakes up until he goes to bed.

LTHForum.com
"This is the one," he says. No other local food-focused site has 4,000-plus rabid fans chatting back and forth all day and all night, he says.

Hungrymag.com
This wide-ranging food e-zine (run by occasional Chicago contributor Michael Nagrant) offers stories, restaurant reviews, and a monthly podcast—which recently featured chef Frank Brunacci, tapped by the Donald for a new restaurant. It's updated continually, so there's almost always something new, Kaplan says.

ChicagoFoodies.com
This site is updated frequently with restaurant reviews, photos of dishes, and stories on recipes, wine, and beer. Kaplan says the site covers an excellent range of cuisines. It also links to stories and polemics of interest to foodies, such as one arguing that the government subsidizes obesity.

SkilletDoux.com
Dominic Armato blogs about his food-travel adventures and lavishes exhaustive reviews on new dishes (check out his ode to xiao long bao, Chinese soup dumplings), restaurants, and recipes. Kaplan loves the photo spreads and Armato's "food language."

Illustration: John Kenzie