Talk about your masa appeal: I found not one but three tamale sites worth recommending: Alamotamale.com, from Houston's Alamo Tamale; tamale-8.com, from Guerra's Tamales of Edinburg; and tamale.com, from Pedro's Tamales of Lubbock Read "The Great Texas Tamale Click-off" to find out how they stacked up

Flash-in-the-pan internet companies can learn a thing or two about tenacity from Pittman and Davis, citrus farmers in the Rio Grande Valley since 1926. The company's online selection is limited to what it knows best: fruit and juice. Ordering half a bushel of grapefruit and oranges from pittmandavis.com was easier than peeling a tangerine.

KUDOS Answers to nagging questions like how long it takes for a grapefruit tree to bear a full crop (eight years).

GRIPES Limited offerings; why not put the whole catalog online?