Jason Perlow

Summary

The eGullet.com culinary discussion board site, launched in August 2001, is the leading online food discussion forum in the world, with message traffic often in excess of 1,000 messages per day and a user base of approximately 3,000 registered users plus tens of thousands of guest users with read-only privileges. The keys to eGullet's success have been a leading edge discussion board software product and a team of expert moderators who carefully steer the discussions. The site is divided into regional (e.g., New York, New Jersey, Pacific Northwest, France) and subject-matter (e.g., Cooking, Wine, Food Media & News) message boards, each of which is moderated either by an authority in the field or, in the case of the smaller boards, by the site's staff. As opposed to typical food message board sites, eGullet.com is emphatically not a simple information exchange where people mostly discuss specific restaurants and where to eat. The discussion on eGullet.com, though it does touch on restaurants and includes many user-contributed reviews, tends to focus on higher-level food issues. The mix of users includes every type of person from rank amateur/neophyte to some of the top people in the professional culinary world. Specialties: eGullet.com is the premier food news and discussion web site.