Food: Trolling The Web For Salmon

John Dunn prefers his smoked salmon sliced thinly and served with a squeeze of lemon on his mom's "beautiful" brown bread. He should know what's good: His family has been smoking fish at Dunn's of Dublin for 175 years. Alisa Meyer, whose family runs the Totem Smokehouse in Seattle's historic Pike Place Market, prefers her salmon with cream cheese on crackers, or diced into chowder, or served in cream sauce atop fettuccini. And me? I like it the New York way, layered on a poppy seed bagel with a schmear of cream cheese.

However you eat it, there's no doubt that salmon is an ideal luxury gift for a friend or business associate, or a treat to dress up a holiday brunch or dinner party. But finding top-quality smoked salmon can be a hassle, especially if you live outside New York or a few other Atlantic or Pacific Coast metropolitan areas where the fish has long been a culinary staple. Thanks to the World Wide Web, however, you now can net salmon with a click of your mouse.