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- Allrecipes.com
Site for novice cooks, as well as anyone who wants quick and easy recipes. User can search by main ingredient, type of recipe, holiday or brand names such as Weight Watchers, Cooking Light or Betty Crocker. There is also a meal planner and cooking advice. Easy browsing by recipe type. - Barbecue'n on the Internet
Everything you ever wanted to know about outdoor cooking, whether it be over wood, charcoal, or gas. Whether you prefer stoves, grills, pits or smokers, you'll find an encyclopedia's worth of tips and information. Recipes, spices, marinades and temperature control are also included. Searchable and browsable. - Chef Rick's Southern Cooking
If you're looking for the best of Southern Regional, Cajun, Low-country and All-American home-cooking, you've come to the right place. Chef Rick's searchable site provides not only recipes and explanations of regional terms, but tips for everything from food safety to seasoning a skillet. Whether you crave some Frogmore Stew or Smothered Pork Chops, this is the site for All-American ethnic food. - Cook's Thesaurus
One of those indispensable sites for anyone who cooks. An encyclopedia of thousands of ingredients, with pictures and descriptions. Particularly useful are their suggestions for substitutions, for those times when you run out of a key ingredient. Searchable and browsable.
- EnSpicelopedia
Spice Company McCormick supplies a comprehensive site on herbs and spices with history, usage tips and descriptions, origins, folklore, and even a sensory profile, along with a vast searchable recipe index.
- Epicurious.com
This cooking site has many options, including recipes, reference guides, and cooking advice from famous chefs. Good for gourmets and cooking novices. - Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
A partnership of the Michigan State University Library and the Michigan State University Museum has produced this wonderous digital collection of 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks. You can browse by category or do an author, title or full-text search. Author biographies are also available.
- Flora's Kitchen
A wonderful portal site which links you with all things food and beverage. Everything from basic cooking and preparation information to ethnic foods to special diet recipes and cooking software, Flora has done the looking for you. - Food Network
Cook up a storm with some of your favorite tv chefs! From grillin' and chillin' to wonderful weddings, you'll find great recipes from the 50 cooking shows on this network.
- Food Timeline
Curious about the history of food? Want to know what the people ate in ancient Greece? Consult the Food Timeline, created and maintained by the Morris County Public Library in New Jersey. You can also access the Culinary History Timeline from this site as well, which has more of an emphasis on menus and social mores.
- Joy of Soup
The Soup Lady sure knows her soup! Everything from baked potato to vichyssoise, many with lovely pictures. There are current favorites and archives that date back to 2001. - Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage
An examination of American cuisine, from a historical vantagepoint. From the culinary collections of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division at Cornell University Library. - RecipeSource
A relatively new home for one of the oldest recipe compilations on the Web. RecipeSource began life as SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes) in 1995, and has grown from 10,000 to over 70,000 recipes. Searchable or browsable by region or category (main dishes, etc.).
- Simply Soups
From chowders to chilis, this fully browseable site is a great resource for accessing hundreds of soup recipes. A selection of links to other food sites is included.
Vegetarian
- Vegetarian Recipes Around the World
Over 1,800 recipes are available in English (more in other languages) from across the globe. Browsable by regions and types of food, and searchable as well. Compiled by the International Vegetarian Union (IVU). - Vegetarians in Paradise
For everything you always wanted to know about vegetarianism and vegan lifestyle, browse this Los Angeles based site which includes “Vegetarian Basics 101” and a comprehensive list of vegetarian companies and organizations, including a directory of vegetarian associations, recipes, and an archive index. - Veggie Table
Recipes arranged by cuisine, by ingredient, and by type or course, as well as comfort foods, just for kids, and seasonal meals. Information on nutrition and vegetarian basics are also included. - VegWeb Recipe Directory
Recipes are arranged in directory fashion, from appetizers to 'various veggies'. You can browse a subject heading, the recipe category of the day, or alphabetically by recipe title. Site is also searchable.
Wine
- Local Wine Events
This site features ‘the world’s largest food and wine tasting events calendar.’ Browsable by location, date, or name of event, it also has classified advertisements and links for all sorts of wine and wine related products, tours, classes, clubs, publications, and job opportunities. Listed events include wine festivals, tastings, dinners, auctions, seminars, and lectures. There is an event submission form and a sign-up for e-mail notification of events in specific places. - Winefiles.org
This database was created for wine professionals and wine lovers. The site is fully searchable, with information pertaining to wines worldwide from 1988 to the present and a database devoted to California wines from 1849-1999. The database is produced by the Sonoma County Wine Library and the archives, contributed by Charles Sullivan a noted California wine expert, hold over 30,000 citations and also boast other helpful links from the Sonoma County Wine Library site.