My friend Kristina Johnson (whom I've known for almost 25 years) has started a new blog, Former Chef -- it's mostly about food, though knowing her obsessions, I'm sure it will have lots of travel stuff in it as well. (After she quit her job as a chef, she and her husband took nine months off to travel around the world, in the process becoming proto-bloggers.)

Kristina is still in the restaurant business, but on the management side, which is much better for her friends, since now that she no longer cooks for a living she's actually willing to cook for us. In any case, if you like food, you should definitely check this out.