Well this past weekend ChefTalk completed a large upgrade of the forums, photo gallery, and blogging engine. Bugs have been minor and everyone seems to be enjoying the new features (comments please). There are some great new features such as Social Groups, much more feature rich profile page (think my space (lite version)).

The forums are doing very well and the photo gallery has really taken off but it would be nice to see the blogs take off. To tell you the truth I am surprised...

I am back after a week of fishing and cooking in Nestor Falls Ontario Canada on Kakagi (crow) lake. This trip is a yearly adventure with my Dad, brother, uncles, and cousins. Probably my best year of fishing since we first started going up their in the late 80s which made it even better. For those anglers interested we fish for mostly small mouth bass, some large mouth and an occasional northern.

Because the dollar has weakened it was a bit of a shock how expensive it was in Canada...

The past year seems like it has been one long endless stream of upgrades to ChefTalk. Although the upgrades can be time consuming I am extremely happy to see how much ChefTalk has grown as a result of the upgrades. Here are a list of some of what has happened this past year:

• Photo Gallery
• Regular monthly newsletter (teamed up with globalchefs.com)
• Special guest forums (Harold McGee, Rick Bayless)
• Blogs
• New layout to the main site (in progress)
• Addition of RSS feeds for the cook book

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