Here are a few of my favorite Web sites: 

 

Esquire’s first-class, unfettered restaurant critic and columnist John Mariani publishes his own online newsletter – Virtual Gourmet, which is chock full of new restaurant openings, appetizing prose and travel bites. I'm honored to be a contributing writer.

 

If you’re a frustrated foodie mom or dad, Betsy Block’s “Dinner Diaries” debut book is for you.

 

Filmmaker, foodie, producer, singer-songwriter (he’s just released his debut CD "Kitchen Music") and all around Renaissance Man Roberto “yeah-baby” Mighty knows how to cook AND pluck out “Lush Life” by Billy Strayhorn on his Spanish guitar at the same time. 

 

Former chief Boston Globe restaurant reviewer and food writer Alison Arnett reminds us in her new blog that dining involves more than a reservation and a knife and fork: for consumers, it's about eating with a conscious, for restaurateurs, it's about staying on their game -- and no one's going to get hurt.

FAMILY TIES 

 

My cousin and longtime, award-winning photojournalist Kent Miller is a madman behind the camera. His gutsy passion for the craft shows in the photos he takes.