In honor of CuisineNet's Very First anniversary (woohoo!!), we asked those who made the site what it is what food/web/whatever things they liked best this past year. These are a few of our favorite things:

Robin Aronson: Content Manager
Favorite food always: smoked salmon
Favorite specific food site: CheeseNet (especially the poems to cheese)
Favorite web site: The Samuel Pepys Book of Records

Julie Besonen: New York City contributor
Favorite food this year: Pommes Frites for the best Belgian fries with seasoned mayo
Favorite food web site: foodtv.com
Favorite dining experience: The Rainbow Room

Kam On Cheung: New Media Designer
Favorite drink: Chinese Tea, in particular, "Iron Buddha" (a loose translation)
Favorite meal: The one I had when I was in L.A., at Norm's steak house, where $10 can buy you a steak meal for your whole family.
Favorite food site: CuisineNet.

Melissa Clark: Columnist, Fare City
Favorite specific food site: The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine
Favorite new food of the year: Krispy Kreme donuts
Favorite restaurant experience of the year: American "Dim Sum" Brunch at Park Avenue Cafe

Joe Cravo: Technology Director
Favorite Web Site: AltaVista (text only) Fast searches without the ads.
Another Favorite Web Site: You Don't Know Jack Interactive entertainment in 30-minute doses.
Favorite Non-Web-thing: Assemble-it-yourself bookcase from IKEA Easy enough for a Dad and his four-year-old son to put together on a Sunday afternoon.

Ana Deboo: Researcher
Favorite food: Caesar salad made with raw egg yolk and with plenty of anchovies.
Favorite specific food site: The French Fries site (a close contender for my favorite food, actually...)
Favorite site: Oklahoma State University's Department of Life Sciences, it's all about breeds of livestock. You can look up individual breeds, see a picture and read a little history about it. It's way cool. It could be seen as a food site, but I prefer not to think of it that way.

Gary Gluck: Director of Marketing
Favorite Jam: Sarabeth's Apricot Orange Marmalade
Favorite dessert in the last year: Chocolate Ganache from Aquavit
Favorite meal of the year: "butter chicken" at Jackson Diner

Marjorie Ingall: Columnist, You Gonna Eat That?
Favorite site: The Couch: http://www.thecouch.com
Favorite food: rice pudding, now and forever
Favorite specific weird food site: the burrito page

Jeremy H. Jeffers: Lead Restaurant Content Developer
Favorite Food Television Show: TASTE, with David Rosengarten
Favorite Cheap Eat: Big Enchilada
Favorite Dish: Coq au vin (Park Bistro)

Jeff Kantrowitz: Boston Contributor
Favorite comfort food: Tie -- the succulent veal "pastrami" sandwich at chef/owner Paul O'Connell's Providence in Brookline, MA, and the pressed-pork Cuban sandwich at Chez Henri, the Providence offshoot in Cambridge, MA.
Favorite article: Esquire's chef's tour of Moscow, where diners are kindly asked to leave their Uzis at the door and a comrade's annual salary might pay for a round of starters.
Favorite food trend: the profusion of on-line/fax/phone grocery delivery services

Kian Lam Kho: President
Favorite food this year: "Sticky Buns" from Ann Sather in Chicago.
Favorite food site (besides CuisineNet): Food TV Network.
Favorite NYC Web Guide: Total NY (too bad they've lost their virginity).

Alessandra Losciale: New Media Designer
Favorite Food: Gnocchi from Sette Mezzo
Favorite Dessert: Chocolate Cake from Mezza Luna
Favorite food store: Citarella on Manhattan's Upper West Side