In Wednesday’s Food section you’ll see a small article about some of the new features that are coming to the section. As most of you already know, I’m trying to assemble a committee of cookbook reviewers. Some of you have already told me you’re interested; if you haven’t, now’s the time to let me know.

I’m also looking for cooking groups to profile, kids to write about, and I want to help you find products that you love and have lost. Find more details in the Food section.

But more than that, I’m open to hearing anything else you might be interested in reading about. I really do believe that some of the best food and cooks to be found are right in our backyard, and I want to revitalize the Food section, put less wire copy in it and more local news and features instead. I’ll need your help to do that. And by local I don’t just mean Memphis–I mean our region. Tell me about little places you know of way down in the Delta. Let me know about the woman up around Whiteville that bakes the best cakes around, the man with a killer barbecue sauce across the bridge in Arkansas. I want to meet these people. I want to tell you their stories.