Sites

Equivalents & Conversion Tables

• Automated Metric Conversion Calculator for basic conversions: Length; Area; Volume; Weight; Temperature
• German American Corner: Cup and Spoon Conversion Table "gram equivalents for different ingredients" (ed note: some of the calculations seem to be a bit off)
• Global Gourmet's Cooking Measures and Conversion Calculator
• Gourmet Sleuth: Conversion & Ingredient Tables conversion calculator and weight equivalents for many ingredients
• Real Food for Real People: Conversion & Ingredient Tables substitutions, weight equivalents for many ingredients
• rec.food.cooking FAQ and conversion file to help cooks from different countries communicate with one another [...] measurements and terms for food vary from country to country, even if both countries speak English

Ingredients

• Bears in the Kitchen - "glossary of useful stuff to casually drop into a conversation" includes many recipes
• The Cook's Thesaurus "covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools"
• epicentre.com - encyclopedia of spices
• Food Lover's Companion Epicurious explains food terminology
• Food Reference Website "Culinary history, quotes, recipes, trivia, humor, poetry, crosswords, and more" recipe section includes classic and ancient recipes
• Gastronomical Dictionary names of foods in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German
• Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages encyclopedia of herbs and spices with charts of spice/herb names used internationally
• Herbs commonly used in our Kitchen growing and using herbs from the kitchen garden
• International Recipes Online - food and wine dictionary site includes many recipes
• Oregon State University - Food Resource with glossary of several herbs and spices
• Richters Herbs - Medicinal, Culinary, Aromatic - Plants and Seeds including Common Culinary Herbs and Their Uses
• Soup Basics flavoring Agents (herb and spice information)
• What's Cooking America look for Linda's Culinary Dictionary
• The World Wide Kitchen online shopping for food and kitchenware

Magazines

• Art Culinaire Magazine Blue Plate Special
• Canadian Living recipes from archives of Canadian Living Magazine and TV
• La Cucina Italiana Italian cooking magazine (translated into English)
• Cuisine Recipes, Cooking Tips, and Food Ideas from Cuisine Magazine
• Epicurious Recipes archives of Gourmet, Bon Appétit Magazines
• Fine Cooking recipe archives of Fine Cooking Magazine
• Gourmet Fare Magazine
• SAVEUR magazine "Savor a World of Authentic Cuisine" includes a searchable recipe index

Recipe Sites

bread

• Allrecipes bread recipes "bread recipes, meal ideas and cooking advice"
• The Artisan Bread Italian Bread recipes
• Breads, Books & Biscotti "baking experiments with various French breads"
• PastryWiz bread recipes

general

• The Artisan Italian cookery
• Cooking Information Center international recipe and information site
• Copacetic Cook "...to exchange ideas, tips, stories, anecdotes, jokes, books, recipes and anything else that has to do with culinary pleasures"
• Food Network's FoodTV.Com Gateway to Recipes, Entertaining, Chefs, Cooking, Television
• Food Network's FoodTV.ca Food TV Canada
• "Fresh from the Garden" Recipes "Each dish is designed to utilize the fresh vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts that come from your garden"
• The Global Gourmet -"we bring you the world on a plate" including foodwine.com and the electronic Gourmet Guide
• The Kitchen Link ethnic recipes, perserving & canning, special diet, tips, vegetarian, etc. etc. (warning: Kitchen Link makes an annoying use of frames and JavaScript! Turn off your JavaScript to make going there a more enjoyable experience.)
• The Messy Gourmet fun recipes for the not so serious cook
• A MUSE for Cooks ™ bright ideas for cooks who don't use recipes
• The Recipe Center more than 100,000 recipes, includes an ingredients search
• recipes from our kitchen an eclectic mix of recipes kitchen-tested and/or created by us
• rec.food.recipes Recipe archive extensive collection from the newsgroup rec.food.recipes
• Slow Food International Recipes an international response to the effect fast food has on our society and life "There are more tastes in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your gastronomy..."
• SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes) Recipes Galore, includes an ingredients search
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Food & Cooking: Recipes search by Ethnicity, Holiday, etc.
• Veggies Unite! Vegetarian Recipes Directory
• What's For Dinner? rated recipes (NOT Ken and Mary-Jo's TV show)

newsgroups and forums

• Chowhound ...for those who live to eat
• Edible Tulip
• Google newsgroups search archives of posts to newsgroups from 1981 to the present
• alt.bread.recipes bread recipes and discussions
• rec.food.recipes recipes galore
• rec.gardens.edible edible food gardening discussions

Books

• Amy's Bread by Amy Scherber and Toy Kim Dupree, publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Artisan Baking Across America: The Breads, The Bakers, The Best Recipes by Maggie Glezer, publisher: Artisan Publishers
• Asia - the Beautiful Cookbook by Jacki Passmore, publisher: Intercontinental Publishing (published in USA by the Knapp Press)
• Barbecuing, Grilling & Smoking by Ron Clark, Bruce Aidells, Carole Latimer, publisher: California Culinary Academy
• The Book of Grilling & Barbecuing by Cecilia Norman, publisher: H.P. Books
• The Brilliant Bean by Sally & Martin Stone, publisher: Bantam Books
• A Culinary Guide to Herbs, Spices & Flavourings by Arabella Boxer, Jocasta Innes, Charlotte Parry-Crooke, Lewis Esson, publisher: Octopus Books
• Entertaining by Donna Hay, publisher: Murdoch Books (published in North America by Whitecap Books)
• Entertaining Indian Style by Shehzad Husain, publisher: Columbus Books
• Food for the Vegetarian traditional Lebanese recipes by Aida Karaoglan, publisher: Interlink Books
• Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin, publisher: Harperperennial Library
• It must've been something I ate: the return of the man who ate everything by Jeffrey Steingarten, publisher: Knopf
• The Italian Baker by Carol Field, publisher: Harper & Row
• Joy of Cooking by Irma S Rombauer & Marion Rombauer Becker, publisher: Workman Publishing
• The Man Who Ate Everything : And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes and Pleasurable Pursuits by Jeffrey Steingarten, publisher: Vintage Books
• New Food Fast by Donna Hay, publisher: Murdoch Books (published in North America by Whitecap Books)
• The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins, publisher: Bobbs Merrill
• The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook by Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins, publisher: Bobbs Merrill
• Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant by the Moosewood Collective, publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Salsas & Ketchups by Silvana Franco, publisher: New Burlington Books
• A Taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey, publisher: Pan Books
• The Village Baker by Joe Ortiz, publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy by Frances Mayes, publisher: Broadway Books