It's a little hard to explain what this site is about. Matthew Amster-Burton, a food writer living in Seattle, mentioned the idea of a site like this on his blog Roots & Grubs. That's probably the best place to start thinking about what this might be.

This (very small) site was created by J.R. Tipton (jr.tipton@mealoutlaw.com) and is, obviously, very heavily influenced by Matthew's original ideas and his feedback. I can't say why I'm doing it, exactly. I write code down in the Windows kernel for a living, so it is a little nice to get my head up and look out at higher-level development projects; it's been years, really, since I've done that sort of thing.

And I like food. I gather that other folks do too, given the remarkable proliferation of "what did you have for dinner today?" threads spread out on various message boards. In my mind, the king of all of these is the eGullet "Dinner!" thread.

The site is intentionally public: you're more than welcome to use this site in the ways that happen to suit you. Feel free to email jr.tipton@mealoutlaw.com if you want to make a suggestion or report a bug or whatever.

This site uses the very cool famfam silk icon set, which is totally free. The site is running on ASP.NET with a little ATLAS-style AJAX here and there.