December Carnival of Gamers seems to have a culinary theme, and is over at:
MMOGNation: A December Carnival of Gamers Feast!
FOOD FIIIIIIGHT!
(When you're done gorging there, have a look one post newer - Take My Love, Take My Land - news of a Firefly MMO, using the Multiverse engine/platform/sandbox/thing. Multiverse is sort of Second Life, but aimed at Real Programmers, instead of anthropomorphic fetishists and bingo obsessives. Both ones to keep an eye on, the Firefly game, and Multiverse itself which may one day emerge as the main competitor to SL's current unchallenged (guffaw) mastery.)
Edit: Since I'm too lazy to provide fresh content of my own today, do also check out The Podnosticator's current feature run, where he's taken time out of his busy podcasting schedule to actually write something. Old-school! Anyway, it's a jolly decent review of 2006 and is over at Virgin Worlds:
Virgin Worlds: MMORPGs - 2006 in Review - Part 1 of 4, the Failures
Bound to be some controversy on some of those - no-one likes to see their favourite game labelled as a failure, but on the whole, Brent seems to have a better handle on the metagenre than most. (IS metagenre even a word? I do apologise!)