Here's my ever-expanding hotlist of food- and drink-related pages on the World Wide Web. If you know of any others that are worthy, please let me know!First, have a look at my favorite food-related web sites:
- Epicurious: a site put together by Bon Appétit and Gourmet magazines, with a searchable database of recipes, plus ingredient lists, wine databases, restaurant guides, news, features from the magazines, and more. One of the best sites on the Web, period.
- The Food Network: An entire cable television network devoted entirely to food and cooking! Are you surprised that I watch this practically all day? Well, when I can. They have shows hosted by some of America's top chefs, plus listings of recipes from the last two weeks' worth of shows.
- The Global Gourmet: The bi-weekly Internet e-zine devoted to food and cooking, now incorporating the eGG (the electronic Gourmet Guide) and foodwine.com
Beer, Wine and Spirits
- Ardent Spirits
- A-WOW: American Wine on the Web, a new and exciting WWW bi-weekly publication for wine lovers.
- Eric's Beer and Homebrewing Page
- Spencer Thomas' Beer and Brewing, now hosted by The Real Beer Page
- California Wine Country Virtual Tour
- CocktailDB
- Cocktail Time
- DrinkBoy: Adventures in Cocktails
- The Edinburgh Malt Whisky Tour
- The Guinness Page: Guinness is good for you!
- The Real Beer Page
- The Oxford Companion to Wine
- Sam's Wine Warehouse: Online mail-order wine sales, online wine guides and articles about wine.
- Tastings.com
- Virtual Vineyards: A tour and list of wines from Peter Granoff, former sommelier at Square One, San Francisco.
- Wally's Wine and Spirits
- The WebTender: Thousands of cocktail recipes -- some really good, lots awful.
- The Wine House
- wines.com
- The Wine Spectator
- Wine Today
Beverages (Miscellaneous)
- Over The Coffee: Coffee-related information
- The New England Moxie Congress Web Page: A delightfully weird site by a group dedicated to Moxie -- America's first mass marketed soft drink, founded in 1884 as a patent medicine.
Books and Magazines (Print and Online)
- au JUiCe: "the Journal of Eatin', Drinkin' and Screwin' round"
- The internet Epicurean: Feature articles, recipes, chef's forum, weekly featured menus.
- The Los Angeles Times' Food Section
- Gourmet Guides, bargain cookbooks for professional chefs, serious cooks & collectors
Chiles and Hot Food
- The Chile-Heads Page
- Big Bruce's Gunpowder Foods: Texas chili fixins and seasonings
- Chile Today - Hot Tamale: Home of the Chile of the Month Club & the Hot Sauce of the Month Club.
- Death by Curry
- FireGirl's Chile Pepper Wonderland: Cooking, eating, growing, collecting, worshipping, studying, buying, using and discussing chiles, brought to you by superhero FireGirl and Mrs. FireGirl.
- Hot Hot Hot: lotsa hot stuff for sale, in Pasadena and around the world
- The Mad Cow: Recipes with a Kick
- Mo Hotta Mo Betta: zillions of hot 'n spicy things
Cooking Resources (General)
- The Cook's Thesaurus suggests substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives for dieters, inexpensive substitutes for gourmets on a budget, and innovative replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients.
- Food Etc., a site featuring info on obtaining their weekly menus, with recipes and shopping lists, food facts, etc., through subscription and delivered weekly via email. The site also provides cookbook reviews and ordering resources, Weekend cooking and getaway ideas, a Northwest Corner with our favorite restaurants, a list of events, wineries, etc.
Culinary Schools, and related educational institutions/organizations
- The American Hotel and Motel Association's Educational Institute
- Bon Vivant School of Cooking, Seattle, Washington
- California Culinary Academy, San Francisco
- California School of Culinary Arts, Pasadena
- Menus and information from Le Cordon Bleu, the world-famous cooking school in Paris
- The Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education
- The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York
- The Florida Culinary Institute
- The Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana
- The French Culinary Institute, New York City
- Johnson & Wales University. In particular, check out the Johnson & Wales Library card catalog, with vast culinary and related hospitality resources. You can also telnet to the library (login as "library").
- Le Chef College of Hospitality Careers, Austin, Texas.
- Mississippi University for Women, Culinary Arts Institute. New program beginning Fall '97. We offer a B.S. degree in culinary arts with a required minor in one of 4 areas/entrepreneurship-small business development, food journalism, food art, and nutrition/wellness. Mississippi University is a coeducational institution regardless of our name.
- The New England Culinary Institute
- Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts, Pittsburgh
- The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at Michigan State University
- Scottsdale Culinary Institute, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Seattle Central Community College Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts
- South Seattle Community College Culinary Arts and Pastry/Specialty Baking, Seattle, WA
- Tamara's Kitchen in East Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, with a wide range of courses geared toward teaching restaurant quality cuisine to the home cook
Dairy Products
- Egg Farm Dairy in Peekskill, New York. Run by cheesemaker Jonathan White and Chef Charlie Palmer, they're "setting the dairy industry back 100 years" with their marvelous, old-style cultured butter, cream and cheeses.
Desserts and Confectionery
- The Chocolate Archives
- The Chocolate Lover's Page
- Godiva Online: A Chocolate Lovers' Playground, from Godiva Chocolatier and Chocolatier magazine
Fruits and Vegetables, Etc.
- Chuck's Produce Talk: Have questions about produce? Chuck works in the produce department of a Marin County, California grocery and answers your questions here.
- The Garlic Page. This page really stinks ... in the best possible way.
- The Produce Quiz Home Page, featuring the marvelous and brain-teasing quizzes on produce that are posted weekly to the Chefs on the Internet Mailing List by Richard Leibowitz. Test your knowledge!
- The Vidalia Onion Web
Fun Stuff
- Iowa State University brings you Tasty Insect Recipes. Ewwwww.
Guides to Eating and Drinking
- Cuisine Net, an ever-expanding web guide to restaurants and dining, currently covering 10 American cities.
- Eating out in Madrid
- Kansas City Cooking, Kansas City's complete cooking cite including restaurant reviews, links, and recipes.
- Restaurant Row, "the world's largest restaurant guide"
- San Diego Restaurant Guide
- The Saskatoon Restaurant Guide. Yes Virginia, there are restaurants in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ... and they're some of the best in all of Canada.
- Zagat Guides: The famous dining guides online, for over 30 U.S. cities.
Herbs and Gardening
- Food for Thought: Basil
- The Gourmet Gardener: Dozens of pages with tasting notes on various culinary herbs and edible flowers.
Japanese Food
- Rolling Your Own Sushi: Textbook quality, with diagrams. Includes the ever-popular California Roll
- The Web's first (and only, as far as I can tell) Japanese Pizza Page. Betcha ya never had Squid Ink Pizza before ...
- Wade's Virtual Sushi Bar
Professional Resources
- The Australian Culinary Federation
- Bakery-Net, a storehouse of professional baking information.
- Chefs and Cooks on the Internet Mailing List
- #chefs -- the IRC channel for professional chefs, on the DALnet IRC network, moderated by members of the Chefs on the Internet Mailing List
- Chefs' Professional Agency: Culinary and management specialists for the hospitality industry since 1965.
- Home page of The Culinary Professional's Online Newsletter, edited and moderated by Chef Gary Holleman, author of Food and Wine Online.
- HotelNet, founded by Steve Adams, CEC, is a BBS for the entire hospitality industry: hotel GMs, F&B directors, Chefs and more.
- The Louisiana Restaurant Association
- On The Rail, the latest news for food professionals.
- The Satiety Index: Is your food satisfying your customers? Are they full when they leave, or will they be hungry in an hour? Food for thought.
- The Terminal Market Report: Find the terminal prices of fruits and vegetables in several regions of the country, and check the direction of produce prices. As Chef Andy Pforzheimer said in his recommendation of the site, "Check up on your purveyors!"
Recipe Collections (Miscellaneous)
- Amy Gale's Recipe Index in New Zealand
- Café Creosote: Recipes, farmer's markets, cooking dictionary, nutritional information, and more!
- Chef's Express Recipe Club, with a recipe index, plus articles about stocks, food and wine pairing, etc.
- The Chef's Pantry, with recipe and a restuarant guide.
- Mimi's Cyber Kitchen, lots of recipes and links.
- Portuguese Recipes, but it's all in Portuguese.
- The official rec.food.recipes archive site
- Bryan Edmonds' Recipes Index
- Recipes From One Friend to Another
- The Recipes Folder from the CMU English Server
- There's a Recipe Mailing List you can join; see this link for details.
- Teri's Recipe Page, with an interesting section on Pennsylvania Dutch recipes
- TomatoSoup.com - lots of (guess what) ... tomato soup recipes.
- The USENET Cookbook
Regional Cuisines and Cooking Styles
- Ananse's Web: The African Culinary Network
- A Taste of Brazil
- A Cajun Family's Recipe Book, by Merlin Bodin of New Iberia, Louisiana
- Cookery New Orleans Style, Chiqui Collier's cookbook online, and a link to her French Quarter shop of local spices, sauces, and more.
- Czecho-Slovak Recipes from Eleanor's Kitchen
- Hills Hospitality Training and Consulting, a large site about Australian cuisine, with links to the Australian Culinary Federation, and more
- Hungarian Cuisine
- A collection of Indian recipes
- Italian Wine and Food, a subsection of a nifty website based in Rome, called Made in Italy
- Check out the barbecuing action at Sweet Jimmy's Smokehouse
- Kosher Asian recipes
- Mama's Cucina: An Italian cooking site from the makers of Ragú prepared pasta sauces.
- Malaysian Recipes
- La Comida Mexicana: A food site on Mexican cuisine, finally available in English.
- Mexican and Italian Recipes and Cookbooks, from Galley Chef's Gourmet Cookery
- Friends and Partners' Russian Cookbook
- Traditional Recipes of Slovenia
- Thai ingredients and recipes at Bangkok Cuisine's Spice Market
- Turkish Cuisine
Restaurants and Chefs on the Web
When I started this section a few years ago, there were very few restaurants and chefs with home pages. Now every restaurant, chef and his or her grandmother has a web page, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't keep up this list much anymore.
- Antoine's Restaurant, New Orleans, founded in 1840. One of the world's great dining experiences, and one of the best restaurant Web sites I've ever seen.
- The Border Grill in Santa Monica, California. Chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken
- Champs Élysées, a top-rated French restaurant in downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Chef John Folse, CEC, AAC, of Lafitte's Landing Restaurant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and 1994 President of the American Culinary Federation
- The Gumbo Shop, in New Orleans' French Quarter
- Norwood's Seafood Restaurant, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
- StarChefs Online
- Peter St. John, Executive Chef of the Kansas City Club in Kansas City, Mo.
Seafood
- The Fish FAQ, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Various and Sundry Food Sites
- The Food and Cooking section of the enormous Yahoo listing
- More Food-related Links
- The Food Resource: a database of food-related images, and other food-related links
- "Have a Rice Day", from the U.S. Rice Federation. Recipes and more.
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