Cooking Guide
Cooking
20 Essential Cookbooks - James Beard Foundation
28 Cooks - Blog showcasing the culinary talents of a 28 year old vegequarian.
101cookbooks - “Exploring cookbooks, one recipe at a time” by Heidi Swanson, a photographer, cookbook author and designer.
101 simple appetizers in 20 minutes or less - (NYT)
About.com/Home Cooking - cooking.about.com/
Amateur Gormet - witty and entertaining quick bites
Anita’s - tried and true low fat recipes
Anti-depresent Foods - found in of all places Forbes.com
Ashbury’s Aubergines - over 3000 eggplant recipes
Ask A Chef - Got a question about how to make a soufle rise or whether chili should contain kidney beans…
Babbo’s Recipe Archive - Mario Batali’s recipes from Italian grandmothers
BBC/Food - 100 interactive videos
BigOven - recipe sharing site with over 160,000 recipes.
How to prepare - the perfect boiled egg.
Brini Maxwell - a how to show (and blog) for urbanites from a can do gal. Here’s the way to sign up for her podcasts.
Cheap Cooking - old family recipes, new twists, all pretty cheap all things considered.
Chefs.com - chefs.com
Chezpim.typepad - you need to be well fed before you view this site’s amazing photography
Chocolate and Zuchini - best written food blog includes musings, ideas and inspiration
Resource Guide - Chocolate (Cooking, History, Selected Websites)
Chocomap - has an interactive map that allows chocoholic travellers to locate their fix in cities around the world (using Google Map technology).
ChuckEats - a blog that’s long on good eats
Coconut & Lime - food obsessed
Conversions & Measurements at Start Cooking
CookingBread - just like the pros
Cooking By Numbers - tell them what you have on hand, and they’ll tell you what you can make.
Cooking on a Budget - AskMe Wiki
Cooking for Engineers - cooking for the analytically inclined.
Cookthink - match recipes to your cravings.
CrazyMenu - Find menus at local restaurants.
Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity - culinary curiosity.
Got a date? - Culinary Seductions
Eat to your ideal - Culinate
Delicious Days - celebrates food one day at a time, and in a very personal way
EatMe - MetaFilter Wiki list to best threads on eating
Eat Well Guide - find local organic and sustainable sources
You won’t find Tuna Noodle Casserole recipes here - Epicurious
Ethicurean - links to articles and good original content
ExtraTasty - drink recipes
FamilyOven - search recipes across popular sites
Fergus Henderson - (St. John/London) video gems
FoodBlogSearch - recipe searching from over 1800 blogs
Foodpairing - ever wonder about oysters and chocolate
FoodReference - food history, quotes, recipes, tips, tours, et al.
Foodsel - over 7500 foods orgainized with detailed nutrition, group and manufacturer.
Food Timeline - History of food through the ages.
Foodtube - the YouTube of recipes
A definitive history of donughts - Mrbreakfast
eGullet - eGForums
Epicurious - Cooking
Expatriate’sKitchen - musings on food and life
Fine Cooking - Taunton Press
Food Network - foodnetwork.com/
Free weekly printable menu planners - Healthbolt
fxcuisine - A food blog written by a man that’s longer on the pictures and shorter on the words.
Group Recipes - foodie’s sharing recipes
Google - Yes, Google now has a recipe search…
Guru - do you know your fruits and vegetables?
Herb & Spice Encyclopedia - culinarycafe
Historic Foods -chef Ivan Day recreates 600 years of recipes
History of Food - What’s Cooking America
HoneyPot - Blog about baking and archaeology
Hot Sauce Blog - is what it says
HsaBa (Please Eat) - recipes that join Thai, Indian and Chinese cooking.
Hungarian - Food and Beverages in Hungary
Icecream - all about icecream at Library of Congress
InMamasKitchen - includes recipes that nourish the heart.
Julie/Julia - Archive of the massively popular Julie cooks every one of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking recipes
Key Ingredients - recipes from rural America
Kitchen Myths - well researched “truisms” debunked.
Cracking the code of famous recipes - topsecretrecipes
David Lebovitz - well written chef’s blog out of Paris focuses on confections
Meat cuts - take the test
Men in Arpons - real cooking spiced with opinions
Mom’s Best - recipes from family and friends
News for curious cooks - reports from the intersection of food and science.
Nibbledish - a mouthwateringly beautiful social recipe site
Nordjus.co - UK-based, Japanese native Keiko’s spectacularly photographed food blog
OffTheBroiler - serious eats
Open Source Food - Recipes galore
PinchMySalt - food and life in equal measure
Recipe Bridge - find any recipes from over 200 sites
Recipe Goldmine - better than 1000 cookbooks
Recipe Secrets - everything from A-1 Sauce to TGI Friday’s Jack Daniels Grill Glaze.
RecipeSource - searchable online archive of recipes.
Recipezaar - searchable archive of recipes and ingredients.
Restaurant Recipes - TGI Fridays to Applebee’s
Rouxbe - Online video cooking school
Sesame - Vegetarians in Paradise
Slashfood - a hipper recipe source
Smoke Point - Wiki on the smokepoint of various oils
Southern Foodways Alliance - blog celebrated food culture of S.E. U.S. (Tamales, Prince’s Hot Chicken, Boudin Trail, Bartenders of New Orleans)
Supercook - find recipes based on ingredients you have on hand.
Table Matters - great writing about table matters
Tastespotting - best compilation of blogs blog
Tasty Planner - recipe sharing site
Color of Tea - all about tea!
Top Secret Recipes - your favorite restaurant’s favorite recipes to try at home
Travelers Lunch Box - best travel food blog with stunning photos and wonderful writing
What the hell does a vegan eat anyway? - veganmenu
What’s cooking grandma? - grandma’s the world over share their favorite recipes
iVillage/Home & Food - home.ivillage.com/cooking
Yumsugar - everything about cooking and entertaining
How To Videos
How to Eat A Chicken Wing
How to sauce pasta (Mario Batali)
How to Saber A Bottle of Champaign
How to make perfect scrambled eggs (Gordon Ramsay).
How to make well done hamburgers (America’s Test Kitchen)
How to make Chicken With Pears (Christopher Walken)
How to Make Homemade Bagels
How to Teach your kids math while making noodles (Chef Kin Jing Mark)
How to make Guacamole (Chef Skiff)
How to prepare a Coulant au Chocolat
How to carve a turkey
How to make puff pastry
How to make brined bbq rack of lamb
How to carve a turkey
How to make Chef Maxwell’s apple pie
How to make Chef Maxwell’s scallops
How to cook eggs (tips and tricks)
How to make seafood chopino pasta (MikeC)
How to make spicy meatballs and chorizo in a romesco sauce (MikeC)
How to make asparagus prosciutto and truffle essence Risotto (MikeC)
How to make chocolate cherry trifle cake (Nigella)
How to make a cheese platter (Biodynamic Vineyard)
How to can fresh pears (Marge Braker)
How to make small batch jam (Marge Braker)
How to make dungeness crab salad (Stu Stein)
How to make chicken fricasie w/ potatoes, aspagargus and sundried tomatoes (chef Jacques van Staden)
How to CHOW - CHOW videos cover everything from the best of…to tastings.
Shows
Posh Nosh: 2003 BBC cooking show ; celebrity chefs Minty and the Honorable Simon Marchmont (proprietors of the posh Quill and Tassle) strip search cabbage, bamboozle a parsnip and relax avacados through nine 10 minute episodes that are fun to watch, and share. Here are clips from all the shows.
Documentary: Julia Child’s struggle to write and get published “Mastering
Jacques Pepin’s More Fast Food My Way. Sequel to the popular Fast Food My Way. Here’s some one minute recipes.
16 Michelin Star chef, tv personality and restaurateur; recipes; a few show samples - Beef Wellington, Lemon Sole en Papillote, Smoked Paprika Chicken Stroganoff; Brocolli Soup, Eggs On Toast, and finally Sticky Lemon chicken With Champ.
Great Chefs Channel on YouTube captures all of the shows of the oldest cooking/travel series on TV. (pdf’s of recipes can be found here.)
Cooking With Dog (Japanese Cooking)
Miscellaneous
Clara Cannucciari: 93 And Cooking. Depression era cooking: Pasta with Peas; Egg Drop Soup; Poorman’s Meal; Peppers and Eggs; Bread; Depression Breakfast.
Chocolate deserves its own category: Chocolate Timeline for the history buffs; 70% for their chocopedia; CacaoLab for the artisan fans; and ChocolateInContext for a whole bunch of links.
How do wines taste? - (a visualization from over 5000 tastings) Perhaps most useful, how about the wine aroma wheel? Here’s a large format to print from. A scent circle? Or, if white is all you drink, here’s the white wine varietal characters.
Meat analogue: also called a meat substitute, mock meat, faux meat, imitation meat, or soymeat.
An Alphabet For Gourmets (Gourmet) is a compilation of M.F.K. Fisher’s 1949 Series.
Sous Vide (pdf)
Sous Vide is French for “under vacuum” and describes a method of cooking in vacuum sealed plastic pouches at low temperatures for long times.
Table of Condiments - That Periodically Go Bad