Here are some of Lucy's favourite places to visit on the web. Enjoy!

Baking 911: Everything you want to know about baking. Ingredient explanations, recipes, techniques, tips.

Books to Cooks: A fabulous shop with great cookbook selections and cooking classes. They have their finger on the culinary pulse of the west coast. 1740 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, 604-688-6755.

Chowhound: Look for tips on cooking, restaurant reviews, chat and foodie gossip. This site covers the world.

The Cookbook Store: Very knowledgeable staff and a wide range of cookbooks, including hard to find British and out-of-print cookbooks. A food nerve centre in Toronto. 850 Yonge Street, Toronto, 416-920-3271.

eGullet: For the serious foodie. This site features news, articles and discussion about all things culinary.

Epicurious: Tested recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit. It has a great search engine and lots of information about food and cooking. Always reliable.

Food & Wine in London: Food writer Brian St. Pierre's guide to London for the foodie in you.

Gayot: Travel guides (for which Lucy is a contributor) with a focus on great food and restaurants around the world.

Gremolata: A Toronto-based online food and wine magazine--sign up for the newsletter for weekly updates and foodie news.

Grub Street: New York Magazine's food and restaurant blog.

Hungry in Hogtown: A local food-lovers blog on the trials and tribulations of shopping for, cooking and eating good food in Toronto.

Matching Food & Wine: A great site on wine matching with tips and info by UK food & wine writer Fiona Beckett.

Nat Decants: Wine expert and writer Natalie Maclean's effervescent, award-winning website offers wine and food matching, wine picks and much, much more.

HHD Imports: An excellent importer of fine wine, beer and spirits.

The Traveler's Lunchbox: A food blog written by an American ex-pat living in Scotland. Check the picture gallery for the beautiful food shots.

Whining & Dining: A blog by Emma Waverman and Eshun Mott featuring tips, tricks and recipes for parents of picky eaters--also find information on their cookbook of the same name.