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The Accidental Scientist: The Science of Cooking
 
This site explores cooking as a science, from the challenge of high-altitude baking to creating sculptures from table salt. "Here you'll find recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking and may even make you a better cook!" Includes an archive of monthly Webcasts on diverse topics such as cooking holiday turkeys, home canning, and keeping vegetables fresh.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Nov 17, 2003
Allrecipes
Contains thousands of recipes. Topics include appetizers, Asian dishes, barbeque, beef, beverages, Christmas, desserts, holidays, Thanksgiving, and vegetarian. Also features a glossary of cooking terms, conversions, cooking and entertaining advice, and more.
http://allrecipes.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Jul 23, 2005
America's Test Kitchen
Companion site to the popular public television cooking series. "The test cooks solve everyday cooking problems, test equipment so you never have to waste money on things that don't work, and taste supermarket ingredients to save you time in the store." Equipment Corner gives advice on kitchen equipment purchases, Science Desk covers topics such as bacteria and cutting board surfaces, and Tasting Lab tests everyday products such as olive oils, mustards, and salsas.
http://www.americastestkitchen.com/
Topics: Fish, Meat, & Dairy, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners
Last updated Jun 24, 2009
Betty Crocker
This site has a handy, searchable and browsable collection of favorite and new recipes, meal planning calendars, and tips and advice from the staff in the Betty Crocker kitchens. Includes general reference charts (ingredient substitutions, metric conversions), cooking and baking charts, and a glossary. From General Mills.
http://www.bettycrocker.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Mar 22, 2004
Cooking for Engineers
Recipes and food information for engineers and other people with analytical minds. Features include photographs and diagrams for each recipe, comments from users and community forums, and articles about kitchen equipment, food grades, and other subjects. Searchable. Created by an engineer.
http://www.cookingforengineers.com
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Sep 21, 2004
Epicurious
Contains thousands of recipes, cooking tips, holiday features, cocktails, wine advice, travel suggestions, and more. Many recipes feature helpful (and mouth-watering) photographs. Though somewhat commercialized, the quality of the recipes--several notches above the average Web collection--makes Epicurious a first stop for many cooks. Searchable and browsable.
http://www.epicurious.com/
Topics: Beverages, Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated May 4, 2005
Everyday Cook
Recipe database that includes a glossary, tip box (how to make the perfect pie crust, caring for cast iron), and basic information about spices, measurements, and substitutions. Browsable and searchable. Note: Contains annoying pop-up ads.
http://www.everydaycook.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated May 4, 2005
How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes on America's Chefs
Recipes from "How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes on America's Chefs," a public television series (and related cookbook) in which food writer Mark Bittman "pits his home cooking against the ultra-style of the best known chefs in the country." Provides recipes for dishes such as steak tartare, lobster roll, tuna teriyaki, gazpacho, braised rabbit, and persimmon pudding.
http://www.howtocookeverything.tv/episode_list.php.html
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Jan 23, 2009
iChef
The core of this site is its searchable and browsable archive of thousands of recipes. Also features daily recipes; links to food columns in various U.S. and international newspapers; mealplans; information about buying, storing, and serving wine; tips and hints for food preparation and cleaning kitchen utensils and cookware; a discussion forum; and more. Note: the information is served up with a lot of pop-ups and on-site advertisements.
http://www.ichef.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated May 10, 2006
Kitchen Window
This National Public Radio (NPR) column focuses on seasonal cooking and entertaining. The website features commentaries on food and recipes for dishes such as pear tartlets, black bean pumpkin soup, root vegetable cassoulet, roasted chicken, kalbi (Korean barbecue short ribs), ceviche, honeysuckle sorbet, and lavender martinis.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578972
Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Nov 15, 2005
Meals for You
Contains thousands of recipes. Search options include keyword, nutritional level, preparation time, and taste (spicy, sweet). Also features a health guide, kitchen tips and glossary, dietary exchange tables, and more.
http://www.mealsforyou.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated May 4, 2005
The Recipe Link
A collection of thousands of food-related Web sites. Topics include recipes, dieting, food safety, culinary careers, and more. Searchable and browsable.
http://www.recipelink.com/
Topics: Consumer Research & Advocacy, Nutrition & Food Safety, Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated May 4, 2005
RecipeSource
Tens of thousands of recipes, arranged by region and by type of food. Includes recipes for camping, pets, holidays, restricted and special diets, baby food, beauty products, and the bizarre (Vulcan dishes, anyone?). The long-term project of enthusiasts.
http://recipesource.com/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Jan 30, 2009
Recipezaar
This site offers menu ideas and tens of thousands of recipes compiled from the contributions of amateur household chefs and food fans. Includes estimated nutrition facts for each recipe, a "Recipe of the Day," chat rooms, and message boards. Registration (free) required to post recipes and create calendars of meal plans that total the calories and nutrients. Includes a few annoying banner ads. Browsable and searchable.
http://www.recipezaar.com/
Topics: Nutrition & Food Safety, Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated May 4, 2005
Reynolds Wrap Aluminum Foil
The website for this brand of aluminum foil provides answers to questions about foil, such as whether to use the dull or shiny side of the foil, why foil sometimes darkens during cooking, and why aluminum foil is sometimes called tin foil. Also includes illustrated instructions for packet cooking with aluminum foil.
http://www.reynoldspkg.com/reynoldskitchens/en/product.asp?cat_id=1337&prod_id=1789
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Jan 2, 2009
The Slowest Food: Why American Chefs Have Taken Up Sous-Vide Cooking
This 2005 article provides an overview of "sous vide ... the practice of cooking food at low temperatures in vacuum-packed plastic bags. ('Sous vide' is essentially French for 'vacuum-packed.')" Includes a discussion of the history of cooking in sealed packets, French chef Georges Pralus' technique of cooking foie gras in plastic from 1974, and current developments and concerns (such as food safety). Also includes links to related material. From the online magazine Slate.
http://www.slate.com/id/2123101/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Mar 16, 2006
Under Pressure
August 2005 feature article about the cooking method cryovacking, (also called sous vide -- French for "under vacuum"), in which food is put "in a plastic bag and vacuum-pack[ed]. ... Sometimes the food is then cooked in the bag." Describes how this method is used in industrial food production, its introduction into restaurant kitchens, and its status before the Food and Drug Administration. From The New York Times Magazine. Note: Click to skip brief ad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/magazine/14CRYOVAC.html?ei=5088&en=b5f863f9fd710680&ex=1281758400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1142957967-x/iFX0dQIuJmsjd4Syqgrg
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Mar 21, 2006
What's Cooking Grandma?
Small collection of video clips of grandmothers "sharing their special recipes." Features selections such as "Nana Ruth's Jam and Scones" and "Nannie Webb's Apple Crumble." Includes information about sending in a recipe and brief tips for recording audio and making a film. From the design collaborative Human Beans.
http://whatscookinggrandma.humanbeans.net/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Dec 2, 2008
Whole Foods Market: Recipes
Collection of natural foods recipes, including baked goods, meat, poultry, seafood, vegetarian dishes, and more. Also provides cooking tips, holiday menus, and information about shopping and cooking for dairy-free, wheat-free, gluten-free, low-sodium, low-fat, macrobiotic, and other special diets. Searchable. From Whole Foods Market.
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/
Topics: Recipes & Food Preparation
Last updated Jan 4, 2005
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