Help:Getting Started

My name is Gunnar. I live in Toronto and am interested in creating my own database driven website around my field of expertise: popular and colloquial Parisian French, as used in literature, music and film. Another project is to create a recipe site, with a personal interest in non dairy, low cholesterol, savory dishes. So for starters I would like to discover as many interesting and, perhaps, unusual recipes as possible. It may turn out that it's easier to just use someone else's site. So, I am looking for recipes, people interested, and samples of good sites similar to this one. I'm new here, so I have yet to thoroughly investigate this one.