"In a recent interview with GigaOM, Hesser laid out how Food52 plans to become a central clearinghouse for cooking questions and food knowledge throughout the Web — sort of aQuora or Yahoo Answers for food." - Kevin Fitchard, GigaOm.com

Do you use the Hotline? If you haven't been lately, you're missing out -- between discussions about buttercream and kimchi, questions about FOOD52 recipes, and what to do with 15 pounds of pasta, it's a lively place.Here are our top 5 Hotline questions of the week.

Do you use the Hotline? If you haven't been lately, you're missing out -- between discussions about egg yolks and rapini, questions about FOOD52 recipes, and friendly debates about the new party planning site zokos.com, it's a lively place. Here are our top 5 Hotline questions of the week.

Do you use the Hotline? If you haven't been lately, you're missing out -- between discussions about Easter ham and Passover desserts, questions about FOOD52 recipes, and friendly debates about the ins and outs of the kitchen, it's a lively place. Here are our top 5 Hotline questions of the week.

"You can even post a question on the site or through the app, and if you mark the question as urgent, it rockets to the top of the pile so you don't have to stand in your kitchen all night waiting for a little help." - Alan Henry, Lifehacker.com

Yesterday's Office Hours with Melissa Clark was a great time -- questions poured in for Melissa from the Hotline and Twitter alike on a wide variety of topics. We've collected some of the best Q&As -- click through to see what you missed!

Calling all Hotliners!

We're proud to announce a new feature on the Hotline next week: Office Hours, in which our favorite cookbook authors, chefs and producers will be on the line to help with your questions about cooking in real time.

Kicking off Office Hours is Melissa Clark, award-winning New York Times food columnist and author of over 30 cookbooks including The Piglet 2011 contender Cook This Now.

You might try asking Melissa for the best variations on her famous crunchy kugel, or get advice on which herbs to add to her genius duck confit. She'll do her best to answer your burning cooking questions!

Here are the details:

• Melissa Clark will be answering questions on Thursday, March 29 from 3-4pm EST from the Hotline, Twitter, and our FOOD52 Hotline iPhone app (download it free here).
• On the Hotline & Hotline app, be sure to include #askmelissaclark in the Title of your question.
• On Twitter, be sure to include #askmelissaclark and @food52hotline in your question so we can find your tweet!

See you on the Hotline!

"'We created this place where you can ask questions on the site and mark it as urgent, if you are in one of those thorny situations,' Hesser says." - Nancy Shute, NPR.org