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Ethnic | Techniques | Cooking Schools | Professional organisations | Historical | Regulatory
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Ethnic

AUSTRALASIAN

• Victoria Hansen is an award winning Australian freelance consultant, producer and multimedia presenter with specific expertise in food and cooking. Her site is well worth browsing.
• Australian Recipes and Cooking
• Rosemary Horton at the PL Duffy Resource Centre at Trinity College in Western Australia has put together a comprehensive list of Australian recipe sites
• Old Australian Food Recipes - Recipes, cooking and delicious meals the old time way in Australia. From chook recipes to party fare, cakes and puddings, jams, meat. Good old Aussie tucker.
• Links to Australian and New Zealand recipe sites.
• The Destitute Gourmet - cooking on a budget
• Australian Food by celebrity chef Benjamin Christie featuring Australian recipes, cookbooks, videos and chef blog.

ASIAN

• Asia Food, the Asia Society's source for Asian food information, includes an excellent online resource of terms and recipes from Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food.
• Indonesian dishes - here you will find sates and sambals, nasi goreng and beef rendang and lots more.
• There are 280,000 Chinese recipes here
• If you like sushi and want to know more about the customs and traditions surrounding it, Eugene Ciurana has put together a comprehensive guide.
• Sushi tutorial
• Sushi etiquette
• Pick an Asian country from the map and find out about its food, culture, ingredients and cooking techniques.
• Thai Cooking - Cooking using authentic traditional Thai recipes.
• Learn to cook Thai at Thai Table - a great menu of recipes, including step-by-step photos.
• The Easy Thai Food recipe collection.
• A selection of Thai favourites from Royal Thai Cuisine
• Homestyle recipes from Temple of Thai
• A guide to Japanese cuisine and eating in Japan Chinese recipes and cooking tips
• Asian Food Recipes - A wide array of recipes utilising Asian foods. Delicious dishes from all over Asia.
• Recipes from Malaysia

ITALIAN

• Chi mangia bene, mangia Italiano! Italian Food Forever is another comprehensive compendium of Italian cooking. Includes a useful glossary.
• Italian Cook is a very comprehensive guide to the cooking of Italy. Pick a place on the map and discover the local fare.
• Want to learn to cook like an Italian? Chef Giovanni Astronomo will take you on a virtual culinary trip to Italy. His trip covers five regions in as many days and he'll teach you to cook a menu from each.
• Good Tastes of Tuscany cooking class
• Cooking with Patty - Italian recipes and menus
• Mangiare Bene is an English version of a popular Italian website. A highlight is the section where great chefs of Italy share some recipes.

GREEK

• Greek recipes from some of the top Greek chefs.
• Recipes from Greece
• All you need to know about Greek eating and cooking

SPANISH

• It's tapas time - Spanish food in small bites.
• Spanish recipes for you
• The world of tapas in Spain

MIDDLE EASTERN

• Lebanese recipes
• Tagines
• Cooking with the Caliphs

PACIFIC ISLANDS

• Food from the Cook Islands

BRITISH

• If you're enthusiastic about British cooking, this is the place to go.
• Delia Smith is a British institution.
• Eat My Town - honest UK restaurant, bar, pub and hotel reviews

INDIAN

• Michael J Gilby doesn't want to go quietly into the night - he wants Death by Curry. Plenty of choices here though the "comedy" section is a bit ..er.. tasteless.
• Indian TV cook Manju Malhi's tempting website.
• Indian vegetarian fat-free cooking
• Indian Food Forever
• They say curry is Britain's national dish. Here's lots of curry info and recipes.
• How to make naan bread - watch this video featuring Manju Malhi.
• Recipes from India featuring various Indian cultures
• India Snacks - a taste of India and more
• Indian cuisine from India Life
• A small collection of Parsi recipes
• Kerala's online cookbook

OTHER

• Jamaican recipes
• Croatian recipes - a small sample
• Recipes from round the world. Stick a hypothetical pin in the map.
• Worldly Recipes is dedicated, the owners say, "to our passion for food….food, food, glorious food!" That passion is certainly evident. Lots of recipes from round the world - and more.
• Vegetarian cooking Useful free vegetarian ebook site with recipes to improve your health

Techniques

• Cooking 101 - lots of useful lessons
• Chef, columnist, author and teacher Jacques Pepin shows a variety of techniques that will make you cook like a pro. There's a database with 300 recipes.
• Cooking Ware Information & Tips The main difference between homemade and restaurant food will
  be the cook.
• Want to know how to deglaze a pan, devein a prawn, butcher a rack of lamb? Jim Ruch will show you how.
• Here's a series of short and informative videos showing various produce preparation techniques.
• How do they do those fancy napkin folds? Robbie Rice reveals all.
• Some facts about eggs
• Confused about the various stages in candy-making? Video clips from the Exploratorium show the individual stages from soft ball to hard crack.
• Time to get baking? Here's plenty of inspiration from biscotti to brownies.
• If your knife technique needs working on, check out Peter Hertzmann's Knife Anatomy. The rest of the site is also worth exploring.
• Knife skills
• The Reluctant Gourmet offers a selection of cooking techniques for beginners
• Here's how to make your own pasta - a clear guide, well illustrated.
• How to make your own sourdough bread
• Gelato - its history, how to make it, recipes and more.
• This is the place for all those people who like cooking in the great outdoors.
• If your ice cream maker is languishing in the back of the pantry, this ice cream site will spur you into action.
• "All you need to know about barbecue" says this site.
• Cooking tips

Cooking Schools

• If a cooking holiday in Tuscany is on your wish list, check out the cooking school at Castello La Torre
• Shafston School of Hospitality, Kangaroo Point, Queensland
• Ika's online-cooking-school.com contains more than 100 kitchen-tested recipes which will appeal to busy people who like to cook out-of-the-ordinary, easy-to-prepare food made from fresh ingredients. It includes popular dishes from Indonesia.
• Luscious Affairs cooking school, Melbourne
• Cooking Classes in France Chateau living. Hands-on courses. French cooking, Pastry & chocolate.
• Swinburne University, Melbourne Hospitality & chef courses
• Cooking Holidays Experience true Tuscany Cooking Holidays at La Locanda del Prete staying in spectacular Arcidosso, taking a cooking class, going on a wine tasting tour
  

Professional Organisations

• The Guild of Food Writers (UK)
• The New Zealand Guild of Food Writers
• The Food Media Club of Australia
• The Association of Food Journalists - American and Canadian food writers, reporters and editors
• Cuisine Canada, a national alliance of Canadian culinary professionals.
• IACP, the International Association of Culinary Professionals
• The Culinary Institute of America's CIA Prochef website for culinary professionals. There is a substantial cookbook available for download
• International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association, a global network of journalists, broadcasters, culinary professionals, public relations specialists and tourist boards.
• The Culinary Trust celebrates the culinary past and funds the future through scholarship, grant and preservation programmes that encourage and enable professionals in the pursuit of the culinary arts.

Historical

• Gode Cookery, a compilation of medieval recipes from authentic sources adapted for the 21st century kitchen, along with diverse facts on food & feasting in the Middle Ages & Renaissance and other historical culinary items.
• Menus from the Titanic - first, second and third class fare.
• Cornell University Library's food, wine and culinary history
• The history of tiramisu
• The history of pasta
• Historical culinary and brewing documents online
• Ever wondered what the Vikings ate? Who invented the potato chip? Researching a food history question? Consult The Food Timeline.
• The Menu Collection of The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library owns one of the largest historical collections of menus in the world. The Buttolph Collection is strongest for the period between 1890 and 1910.
• Food History News newsletter and site filled with food history resources
• Museum of Culinary History and Alimentation (MOCHA)
• Historic Food with photos, recipes, courses, and more.
• Research Center for the History of Food and Drink at the University of Adelaide, South Australia
• Culinary History groups around the United States
• Food Heritage Press range of books on food history and food culture
• The story behind a loaf of bread
• Elizabethan food
• Historic food links
• Ivan Day's historic foods site
• Unusual ingredients found in ancient Greek recipes
• The University of Adelaide's research centre for the history of food and drink
• Food in 20th century New Zealand
• Food history resources
• Medieval recipe translations
• Medieval cookery - recipes, menus, cookbooks and more
• Online culinary history network
• Feeding America: the historic American cookbook project
• The Potato Museum
• Culinary historians of New York research resources
• Search the menu collection at the Los Angeles Public Library. Some great old menus there.
• More menus -the Mrs Frank E Buttolph American menu collection at the New York Public Library, covering 1851 to 1930.
• The Edible Monument - the art of food for festivals from the Getty Research Institute.
• The history of baking - origins of old favourites like Bakewell tart and lardy cake, Sally Luns and maids of honour

Regulatory

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand ensures safe food by developing effective food standards for both countries. There's a good section What's in Food.

Glossaries of Kitchen and Food Terms

• Very comprehensive glossary from Hormel Foods, the people responsible for the original Spam
• Simplot's Glossary of Culinary Terms describes everything from Arachidonic Acid to Zuppa Inglese. Each word has been described or defined for easy reference, and has been sorted alphabetically to help you find the term you want when you want it.
• Coffee glossary

Food Videos

• The Food Network
• The Amateur Gourmet film archives. This guy has a great sense of humour - watch Failure.
• The Crash Test Kitchen where two Australian ex-pats film themselves preparing dinner.
• How-to cooking videos - and lots of them

Educational

• The Food Museum Online
• The Science of Cooking - discover how a pinch of curiosity can improve your cooking. Kids will like this and the science of eggs is a good place to start.
• Wine Aroma Dictionary - train your nose.
• Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? The author says this is the site to read - Cooking for Engineers. Interesting sections cover equipment and gear, assorted technical notes (fats, Scoville units, additives, caviar and more).
• Food, cookery and hospitality resources. Check out the KnowHow section.
• Food facts - food mythology, evolution and food, fact sheets, eating tips, healthy recipes. This useful site has been set up by Meat & Livestock Australia Limited. Check out the interactive body and the effect food has on different body parts.
• Yeast's crucial role in bread baking
• The story behind a loaf of bread
• The culinary arts and food science career guide
• The Potato Museum

General

RECIPE COLLECTIONS AND DATABASES

• Stuck for a sandwich filling? Here's a site full of ideas to slap between two slices of bread
• Worldwide gourmet - recipes for beginners to master chefs
• Biscotti recipes for ardent dunkers
• Type in up to three ingredients or leftovers and the Wizard will suggest some recipes
• In the US they launched a campaign for Meatless Mondays. Here are some recipe ideas if you want to do the same yourself.
• Recipes from bed and breakfast innkeepers.
• Fresh Cooking from the Garden - a good place for a leisurely browse
• More than 50,000 unique recipes. You'll be very fussy if you can't find something here.
• A large resource for recipes on the Internet. Sorted by ethnic cuisine region and type of dish.
• Clay from Manhattan Beach in California has put together an interesting collection of recipes including ethnic fare, burgers and sandwiches. The Asian sections are well worth a look.
• Top 100 recipe sites
• Hub-UK - recipes and tips for lovers of good food and gourmet cooking
• Fiery Foods has everything for those with asbestos mouths.
• Here's a site dedicated to recipes with step-by-step pictures submitted by a host of cooking enthusiasts.
• Recipes, cooking lessons and kitchenware.
• Recipe database at ichef.com
• Foodie View, the recipe search engine
• Complete Recipes database
• Stumped? Ask a Chef. Includes a recipe database and recent answers for puzzled cooks.
• Recipes, drinks and cooking techniques from Saveur magazine.
• Cooking4Chumps the online cook book with easy to use recipes and cheeky but essential culinary tips, tricks and insight
• Eggs, eggs and more eggs
• Comprehensive crop index from Purdue University
• Stuck for breakfast ideas? Here are dozens
• Lots of cakes and cookies
• Game recipes
• Simple Foodie - a wide range of recipes
• Bare Ingredients - a site for food lovers

COOKERY GROUPS

• Cookery Circle is a UK group focused on setting up, hosting and attending cookery groups

CHEESE

• Fromage.com offers French traditional cheese from French sellers to your table. Express worldwide delivery.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

• Market Fresh - the Australia guide to fresh produce
• Rhubarb, rhubarb
• I don't fancy a diet of raw food, but including some every day is a good idea. Living and Raw Foods is a site with plenty of information.
• Fresh Cooking from the Garden - a good place for a leisurely browse
• Comprehensive crop index from Purdue University

FUNGI

• New Zealand fungi
• Gourmet mushroom growing
• Mushroom recipe library
• The Australian Mushrooms Growers Association

FISH

• How to Cook & Prepare Fish and Seafood - Preparation of fish and seafood products, nutrition info and 1000s of seafood recipes
• Fish species by common name from the Australian Museum online
• The Sydney Fish Market
• From Kailis in Western Australia - seafood recipes
• Sea-Ex Seafood Fishing Marine & Angling Portal and fish recipes

SEAWEED

• Japanese Nori - Japanese sea weed info

MEATS

• Recipes using game meats
• Fish lips, camel paws, duck tongues - and other unusual ingredients and what to do with them
• If you live in Melbourne and want to know how to cook a duck, Luv-a-Duck is the place to go. Regular classes and a great showroom where you can buy ducks and other products.
• Wagyu beef
• Kosher food in Melbourne

DAIRY

• There are plenty of good ideas for incorporating yogurt in your diet at EasiYo

HERBS, SPICES, CONDIMENTS AND FLAVOURINGS

• Sixty uses for salt
• Sea salt guide
• Things to do with verjuice
• Here's where you will find out all about vanilla. Lots of recipes.
• The Epicentre encyclopedia of spices
• Spice and herb encyclopedia
• Kosher food in Melbourne
• Probably just about all you ever wanted to know about chocolate. Pass the peppermint creams.

GRAINS AND PULSES

• Indian dals
• Check the product listings at Teague seed and grain brokers - good information source
• Spelt
• Spelt FAQ
• Quinoa

TEA AND COFFEE

• Coffee and tea
• The history of coffee
• The coffee FAQ - facts and more facts
• Dozens of tea facts

MISCELLANEOUS INGREDIENTS

• I am not really a ramen fan. But here is someone who has set up the official ramen homepage.
• We slather it on bread and toast and much with delight. Or we loathe the stuff. Here's a site dedicated to peanut butter.
• Run out of a vital ingredient? Here are some suggested substitutions

BOOKS AND MORE

• Old Cookbooks - vintage classics
• Internet Public Library
• Kitchen arts and letters - 100,000 titles on cooking and wine.
• Feeding America: the historic American cookbook project
• When you own more than 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking, says Heidi Swanson. This site set out to chronicle a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time but has evolved to embrace a much wider brief.

FOOD BLOGS AND FORUMS

• Cooking Down Under - The Blog
• Stickyfingers in Melbourne recently launched Deepdish Dreams. One worth watching.
• From Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The Old Foodie gives you 400 words each weekday on a topic related to the day, with a historic recipe, and sometimes a menu. And how much fun is that!
• WorldlyRecipes.com food forum
• The Gilded Fork forum
• Forums at the EGullet Society for Culinary Arts and Letters. Good discussions here.
• The French Cooking Board - Share the latest recipes, techniques, ideas and trends in French Cuisine in this French cooking forum
• Blogflux's directory of food and drink blogs

OTHER FOOD WRITING

• Arthur Schwartz, the Food Maven and author of New York City food
• Franz Scheurer's Australian Gourmet Pages - food, wine, restaurants and lots more
• Global Chefs, the culinary online magazine written by chefs.
• The New York Times dining and wining section.
• Epicurian, for food and wine lovers
• Recipes, cookware, techniques, equipment, cookbooks and tips are all available at the International Gourmet.
• Epicurious for people who love to eat. Plenty of reading.
• Leite's Culinaria - food writing, recipe collections and cooking resources and winner of the James Beard Award for food website.

BREAD AND BAKING

• More than 1200 bread recipes.
• The Bread Bakers Guild of America bread links
• The Bread Machine Recipe Archive and other bread recipes
• BakeInfo the website of the New Zealand Baking Industry Research Trust.
• Real Baking with Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of The Cake Bible and The Bread Bible.
• Biscotti recipes for ardent dunkers
• Lots of cakes and cookies
• Sourdough starter
• Yeast's crucial role in bread baking
• The story behind a loaf of bread
• Your first loaf - a primer for the new baker

Chefs share their recipes - and thoughts

• Alton Brown Celebrity Chef Alton Brown, host of the Food Network's Good Eats
• Bobby Flay Host of TV cooking shows such as BBQ with Bobby Flay and Boy Meets Grill, and one of the chefs on Iron Chef America.
• Dave Lieberman Host of the Food Network shows Good Deal and Eat This. He works as a personal chef in and around New York City.
• Giada De Laurentiis is host of Food Network’s Everyday Italian cooking show. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France before becoming a professional chef.
• Mario Batali Iron Chef and host of Food Network cooking shows such as Molto Mario, Mario Eats Italy and Ciao America!
• Ming Tsai Host of Simply Ming
• Rachael Ray Host of 30-Minute Meals among others.
• Sara Moulton Executive chef of Gourmet magazine, cookbook author and host of Sara’s Secrets.
• Paul Prudhomme
• Rosemary Shrager: Queen of the Kitchen
• Ted Allen Food and wine specialist on Queer Eye.
• Tina Nordstrom Host and chef of New Scandinavian Cooking on PBS. Sweden’s most influential celebrity chef.
• Todd English
• Tyler Florence Celebrity chef and food network star and cookbook author.
• Wolfgang Puck Austrian-born Wolfgang Puck is one of America's most influential celebrity chefs with restaurants, cookbooks, TV shows and his own food company.
• Jacques Pepin - includes a good video section on how his cooking show is put together.
• Jamie Oliver
• Madhu Menon of Shiok Far-eastern cuisine
• Escoffier Online - well not the man himself...
• Chef2Chef cuiinary portal

Wine

Australia | New Zealand | International

AUSTRALIA

• Aussie Wines to your Door - offering boutique wines to your international door
• Cloud Wine - Small winery specialist with three Melbourne locations
• Wine basics - answers to your questions about Australian wines
• Victoria wines - Oh, dear. I've just read "Victoria boasts over 350 wineries in 22 distinct wine regions." That means it's going to take quite a while to visit them all. In the meantime, you can start here.

NEW ZEALAND

• The Central Otago Wine Cellar is a dedicated on-line virtual wineshop, specialising in fine wines from the Otago region, New Zealand. It also offers a gift hamper service, and sells a range of boutique cheeses and other Otago gourmet products. Central Otago is noted for its fine pinot noir wines.

Martinborough

• Alana Estate
• Ata Rangi Vineyard
• Claddagh Vineyard
• Craggy Range
• Margrain Vineyard
• Martinborough Vineyard
• Murdoch James Estate
• Nga Waka
• Palliser Estate Wines
• Schubert Wines
• Tirohana Estate
• Te Kairanga Wines Ltd
• Voss Estate
• Vynfields

INTERNATIONAL

• Bordeaux Central - plenty here for the wine enthusiast including tasting notes, wine links, message boards, vintage information.
• Wine Aroma Dictionary - train your nose.

Commercial links

Some of these may have nothing to do with food, but the people asked nicely to be included...

• Easy Open Ends - Scan holdings offers food packaging products including aluminum bottle neck foils for beer bottles, easy open ends, tinplate cans and many more at competitive prices.
• Aga Cooker - Twyford Cookers Specialises in Aga Cooker. They also offer used, reclaimed and second hand Agas.
• HiSunglasses
• Eggless Cakes - Sugarless Bliss presents top quality eggless cakes at affordable prices. All cakes are 100% vegetarian.
• Wedding Entertainment - Contraband International is a professional entertainment company offering corporate party & wedding planning services in London and the rest of the UK.
• Celeb Pulp - life in the fishbowl