Have you ever found yourself wondering, “How does the Fabulous Foodie stay on top of what’s happening in the culinary world?” No? Ah. Hmm . . . well, listen. On the off chance that you do find yourself wondering that some day, I want to tell you a secret from the New York office.

iGoogle gadgets. Yup. I have cobbled together the perfect (for me, anyway) system of rss readers and tabbed home pages – enabling me to see what’s happening across a pretty wide spectrum of places without drowning in posts and headlines. I have my foodie blogs in one space, the food and dining sections of major papers in another, the magazines on their own, the culinary personalities in their own playpen. It also means I can keep all my Gotham feeds in their own (similarly organized) space without completely shifting into another gear.

It may not be the most streamlined process but it makes me more streamlined time-wise and that is (after all) the point. I tried Google reader but it just became a daunting, laundry list of headlines, the sheer volume of which made me turn and flee. Turning and fleeing is not very productive so I went back to my previous ways.

Why am I telling you this? Because, I am starting what I hope will be two new regular features here on Fabulous Foodie. The first is a ‘behind the scenes’ series (like a DVD extra, the blog version) and the second is a ‘Friday Food News Peruse‘.

So, that’s how we got here today. I had feeds on the brain.