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Broccoli Salad
Grandma Anna's Chicken Soup
Hooker's Pasta
Karin's Hot & Sour Craving Soup
Kathy's Caesar Salad
Lamb & Barley Soup
Milkyway Cake
Pad Thai
Poky's Salsa
AllRecipes.com has great recipes, meal ideas, and cooking advice.
The Chicken of the Sea web site is packed with health and nutrition information, as well as tasty recipes. There is even a recipe generator that helps you decide what to make. My favorite part of this web site though, is that it plays the Chicken of the Sea song once the page has loaded (I must have hit the Reload button a dozen times)!
Eat.com (owned and maintained by Ragu) is full of terrific recipes. This site also maintains a cooking glossary and a pasta glossary.
The Epicurious Recipe File is a collection of almost 8000 recipes, including recipes from Bon Appetit, House & Garden, and Gourmet magazines. They even have a huge collection of beverage recipes. The search tool here is fabulous, letting you do keyword searching as well as giving you the ability to narrow down your search as to the type of cuisine, meal/course, and ingredients.
The Food Network is an amazing resource. If you watch FoodTV, you will love this site.
The Global Gourmet is a terrific e-zine full of recipes and wine tips.
Google Directory has an extensive collection of cooking links and recipes.
Kraft Interactive Kitchen is a very exciting and useful cooking-related site. It not only has terrific recipes and cooking tips, but will make a shopping list for you! (And, yes...recipes do feature Kraft-owned brands...but don´t we all use them anyway?) This is a fabulous site.
Mimi's Cyber Kitchen (A wide variety of recipes and food information)
RecipeCenter Online, food trivia, recipe of the day, recipe software, and a lot more!
The Recipe Dude has a nice collection of recipes well-organized. There is also a search engine (very useful!), a communications center, and a book store.
Recipe Source is the home of
SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes and a very good source for recipes on the Internet.
The Reynolds Kitchen Online (owned and maintained by Reynolds Wrap) is full of cooking tips and recipes. There are also Cooking Charts for Reynolds Oven Bags available, with some neat ideas for easy meals.
Tastings.com is your portal to potables! Their yellow pages lists every winery they could find in the US--more than 1,500, and practically every brewery in the US, about 1,800! Most listings have an address, telephone, and fax for the sales office and for tours and tastings. More than 700 are linked to web sites. Many have information about free or fee tastings, picnic grounds, restaurants, meeting rooms, wheelchair access, concerts, newsletters, and even overnight accomodation. This is the place to go if you are having trouble finding a specific wine or microbrew or if you are heading to wine country.
The Top Secret Recipes
site shows you how to make kitchen clones of brand-name food from
restaurants like Boston Market, Starbucks, Hard Rock Cafe, and even
McDonalds (restaurants that can be found in almost ever major city in
the world).
Yahoo has an extensive collection of cooking links and recipes.
30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray.
The official Emeril LaGasse's official Web site, and Emeril's Food Network site.
Good Eats with Alton Brown.
In the Kitchen with Chef Tell Info on Chef Tell's cooking show, plus recipes and other information.
The official Yan Can Cook page.
CuisineNet bills itself as the premier restaurant guide on the net. You can search through their listings for general info, menus, and customer comments.
OpenTable.com lets you book and confirm restaurant reservations online.
Restaurants.com online blue pages for restaurants nationwide.
Besides cooking, I like to read books about other people´s cooking experiences, and gastronomical pleasures in general. Here is a list of some of my favorites.
- Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child, by Noel Riley Fitch. Published by Doubleday (1997). (Oh how I wish I grew up with Julia!)
- The Man Who Ate Everything:And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes and Pleasurable Pursuits, by Jeffrey Steingarten. Published by Knopf (1997).
Synopsis: A frequently hilarious collection of essays that emphasize good eating over an obsession with health.
- Home Cooking, by Laurie Colwin. Published by Harperperennial Library (1993).
Synopsis: Laurie Colwin presents a delightfully delicious and witty exposition on what, how, and why we eat. With recipes, tips, and personal recollections, Home Cooking is part memoir, part cookbook, and part warm discourse on the joys of simple food.
- The Making of a Chef : Mastering Heat at the Culinary
Institute of America, by Michael Ruhlman. Published by Henry Holt & Co. (1997). Synopsis: In 1996 Michael Ruhlman entered the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, to learn the art of cooking.
After nine grueling weeks of classroom instruction, he was then granted entrance to the school's numerous kitchens to
learn the secrets of mastering the techniques of world-famous chefs. Exploring the essence of becoming a chef, this book
reveals the elusive, unnameable elements of great cooking Author publicity.
- Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell (1994). (The movie is wonderful, too.)
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