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.
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.
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.
Under the Tamarind Trees - Tom Aarons of Perth is a former aid worker and who cooks, writes about, and photographs Cambodian food.
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.
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.
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
Cooking for Rookies - everything you always wanted to know about cooking but never
dared to ask.
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.
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.
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
Culinary Schools: Learn the Culinary Arts at one of the Great Culinary Arts Schools. Culinary Arts
Information & Culinary Arts Scholarships
Let's cook in Umbria Cooking holidays and cooking classes in a spectacular
location (Umbria, Italy): hands-on cooking lessons, 2/4/7 day culinary tours in Umbria and Tuscany
and traditional meals.
Culinary breaks - This impartial top 20 list covers a wide variety of cuisines, from Icelandic to Italian, so anyone who has a combined love of food and traveling could benefit from our hand-picked selection.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Calorie Counter's Drink Recipes The largest collection of Cocktails, Liqueurs, Punches, Shots & Shooters and Other Drink recipes. Search and browse for your favorite drinks and cocktails from over 9000 drinks recipes.
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
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.
Probably just about all you ever wanted
to know about chocolate.
Pass the peppermint creams.
A gardening related page with lots of educational articles including a really nice article on herbs. Thanks to the student from Mrs Anne Hughes' class at Monument Charter School for finding it.
And Ashley from Lauren Myers' after school gardening/environmental club somewhere in the US found me this Herb Garden Guide. I think I may need to have a special section for resources for kids. Watch this space...
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!
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.
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.
Vinos de Ayerbe - High quality & Ultra Premium Wines from Argentina
Commercial and general
links
Some of these may have nothing to do with food, but the people asked nicely to be included...
TABC Seller Server Training & Certification: SellerServer.com provides TABC training & certification to all the persons involved in selling or serving alcohol beverages to the public
Villas in Spain - Choose from a large selection of holiday homes in Spain
Food Handler - Food handlers of Texas offers officially approved, quality Texas food handlers certification courses and TABC certification online.
KitchenwareDirect - 100% Australian owned and operated. Australia's premiere website for cookware and kitchenware.
Best brands and good prices.
Cutting boards - A cutting board is an essential part of every kitchen. It provides the chopping space for food preparation, or to serve the finished meal. As important as the chef’s knife, the cutting board is arguably the most used kitchen tool in our home.
Knives and sharpeners available from brands such as Tojiro, Chroma, Ergo Chef, Smith's, Ultimate Edge and more.
Healthy Chocolate - We are one of the top Xocai distributors - healthy gourmet dark chocolate products which contains none of the artificial or processed junk. Contact us at (619)822-1928 & buy Xocai healthy chocolate at wholesale prices
Cornwall Food & Drink Restaurant Cornwall food & drink restaurants are part of restaurant chains or franchise operations, and standardized food stuffs are shipped to each restaurant from central locations.
Survival Warehouse -Survival, Backpacking & Long Term Storage Food by Mountain House, Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Foods
Aga
Cooker - Twyford Cookers Specialises in Aga Cooker. They
also offer used, reclaimed and second hand Agas.
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..
Kevoo Catering: mobile kitchen rentals. Affordable full service mobile catering and kitchen rentals for corporate events, weddings, outdoor,concerts, and more.
