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CULINARY ARTS & FOOD RELATED

All of the websites listed below are multi-topical, covering a wide variety of cookery, cuisine, food industry and nutrition subjects: Baking, beverages (alcoholic/non-alcoholic), career information, cookbook reviews, cookery, ethnic/regional cuisine, food industry, food safety, menus, newsgroups, nutrition, professional associations, recipe archives/indexes, restaurants, specific foods, and tables (conversion/measurements).


Allfoodbusiness.com

•  This extensive resource concentrates on sites of interest to practitioners in the foodservice/ restaurant industry (includes catering) and other culinary-related professions
•  Provides articles/links to many aspects of running a restaurant/foodservice operation, including personnel issues, food safety/inspections, “forms” and much more
•  “Market Place Vendors” links to a wide variety of products/services useful to the industry
•  Contains significant commercial content
•  Outstanding; this is one of the best sites for practical, “nuts-and-bolts” information for all sectors of the industry; especially useful for advice/links for dealing with licensing and other government/regulation aspects of the profession


America’s Test Kitchen

•  Sponsored by “Cook’s Illustrated” magazine
•  This site is the online companion of the PBS television show of the same name
•  Offers a variety of resources, including “All the recipes from the show (and some that ended up on the cutting room floor”), reviews for cooking equipment, “The Tasting Lab,” “Science Desk” and related features
•  Searchable
•  Links to commercial sites
•  A very good site for “hands-on” cooking information


Barbara’s Food & Drink Page

•  Maintained by Barbara Gellis Shapiro
•  Links to sites for the following: drinks, ethnic/regional foods, food reference, publications, nutrition, food safety, recipes, restaurants, chefs, specific foods, vegetarian lifestyles
•  Not searchable
•  Brief annotations accompany many sites
•  No longer updated, but most links are still “live”
•  One of the first “food pages” posted on the Internet, this site offers a great mix of sites for anyone seeking an introduction to what’s available in the culinary and food world


Chef2Chef

•  The comprehensive site concentrates on sites of interest to practitioners in the culinary/food professions
•   “Professional Community” links to employment opportunities, services, industry news, professional organizations, “Culinary Directory” (equipment, software, supplies), chefs’ websites, events, “Top 100” (chefs, culinary sites, wines)
•  Includes a recipe database, which claims “… 280,000+ Recipes”
•   “Culinary Directory [with] … over 30,000 sites” links to sites for associations, cooking, food science, publications, “More Directories”
•  Outstanding; one of the best sites for industry professionals (and also for anyone with an interest in the culinary/food fields)


Culinary Arts and Food Science Career Guide

•  Compiled and maintained by Katherine Hake
•  This sub-page of the “Vocational Information Center” web directory links to almost 400 sites for culinary arts/food science
•  Sites are categorized for the following topics: career descriptions, “Basics” (conversion calculators, dictionaries/glossaries/thesauruses), ethnic cuisine, food history, food industry, food safety, law/standards, nutrition, recipes, specific foods (dairy, desserts, fruits and vegetables, meat/poultry/fish)
•  Sources utilized include sites from academia, government agencies, professional associations/organizations, publishers
•  No annotations
•  Links to “Web Resources” for over 40 topic-specific career areas and over 30 vocational education/general career areas
•  Outstanding; this resource provides an excellent selection of sites for culinary-related job descriptions and many other culinary-related topics; user-friendly; highly recommended


Culinary Resources: Cookery and Culinary History Web Sites

•  Written by Susan Summerfield, Kendall College Library
•  Published in the November 2003 issue of College & Resource Library News
•  Overview of 30 cookery/culinary history sites with “free and reliable information”
•  Links to sites for meta-sites, image collections/online exhibits, journals, menus, recipes, culinary history (includes timeline)
•  Updated May 2007
•  Outstanding; with excellent annotations for all links, this is a great place for an overview and to begin research


Culinary Resources on the World Wide Web

•  Maintained by Chuck Taggert
•  Links to sites for the following: beverages, books/magazines (print and online), chilis/hot foods, general cooking resources, educational institutions/organizations, dairy products, desserts/confectionary, fruits/vegetables, recipes, “professional resources”
•  Short annotations accompany many links
•  Links to Chuck Taggert’s “Creole/Cajun Recipe Page,” “Gumbo Pages”
•  This site has been online for quite a while; it’s an excellent place to begin research, since its links are quite stable and are representative of some of the best sites for the categories chosen


Digital Librarian: Food and Drink

•  Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson
•  Directory of links to over 400 sites linking culinary/food-related sites for the following: chefs, nutrition, food safety, restaurant forums/guides/directories/reviews, food history, blogs, food writers/critics, food-oriented TV programs, libraries/archives/digital collections and more
•  International in scope
•  Short annotations accompany many links
•  Outstanding; this site has been greatly expanded recently and links to facets of the culinary/food world not readily available elsewhere in one place; a great place to browse


Epicurus: Where Great Things Begin

•  Sponsored by Epicurus Group
•  One of the most popular food sites currently online, this site offers a variety of features on cooking/food including articles, dining information, beverages, cookbook reviews, travel reviews, and a glossary
•  Links to commercial sites
•  Searchable
•  Free monthly e-mail newsletter (registration required, but it’s free!)
•  Great for general interest information on the culinary field


Food

•  Sponsored by the Internet Public Library (IPL)
•  Links to over 40 food-oriented sites for the following: food safety, nutrition, recipes, industry/professional associations/organizations, glossaries, government agencies, specific foods
•  Annotations accompany each link
•  Links to related IPL pages for drinks, ethnic cuisine, recipes/cookbooks, vegetarianism
•  In keeping with IPL’s tradition, this is a very useful place for beginning researchers


Food Dictionary, Glossary and Terms Directory

•  Sponsored by “The Glossarist”
•  Directory of links to 190 sites for culinary/food terminology for the following: general food glossaries, glossaries for specific foods, ethnic cuisines, the food industry, cooking, spices, nutrition, beverages, food safety, bilingual resources
•  Annotations accompany most links
•  Browsable, but sites are not listed alphabetically or by categories; searchable, however
•  Mostly in English, with some sites in other languages
•  Links to additional “The Glossarist” pages for other topics
•  Outstanding; this is far and away the best site for links to comprehensive resources for anyone who needs information about culinary/food terms


Food Network

•  “The companion website to cable’s premier destination for food and lifestyle programming”
•  Links to a variety of culinary/food topics, including “tie-ins” to the Food Network channel, recipes (2,500+), celebrity chefs’ information, book reviews, “entertaining”
•  Searchable
•  Links to commercial sites
•  This online tie-in to the Food Network channel is another example of a useful resource for keeping current with the food world


Food Reference Website

•  Maintained by Chef James T. Ehler
•  With links to over 10,000 pages, this site is a cornucopia of information on the culinary arts and food
•  Includes hundreds of articles on over 160 beverage and food categories, facts/trivia, kitchen tips, recipes, food quotations, book reviews, food history, “Daily Food and Beverage Industry News” (compiled from industry sources, USDA reports)
•  Also includes “Chef’s Job Network” and “Who’s Who in Culinary Personalities” (chefs, food critics, cookbook authors, restaurateurs)
•  Links to commercial sites (“Book Store,” “Kitchen Store,” “Health Store”)
•   “Food Reference Websites” links to companion sites created by Ehler: “Culinary Events Calendar” (www.culinaryevents.com), “Classic Fish and Seafood Recipes”
•  (www.seafoodfish.com), “Culinary Posters (www.culinaryposters.com)
•  Weekly e-mail newsletter
•   “Website Bibliography” lists sources utilized in creating the website: books, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, websites
•  Outstanding; comprehensive for many aspects of culinary/food topics and easy-to-navigate


Food Resource

•  Sponsored by the College of Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University
•   “A source of science-based and business savvy information for the food industry,” the primary emphasis of “Food Resources” is on nutrition and food science, linking to sites (and in some cases, images) on a wide variety of beverages, dairy products, meats, and seafood
•  Numerous links to commercial sites
•  Also links to glossaries, cultural aspects of food, reference sources, newspapers/journals, and a superb directory of sites for government resources (both nationally and internationally)
•  Does an excellent job of providing links to resources not readily available elsewhere in one place


Food Site of the Day

•  Created and maintained by Marty Martindale
•   “Mission Statement: From hunters and gatherers to gourmet e-commerce, we are on a wonderful adventure as we learn and taste new foods and combinations”
•  Online since 2001, this site’s extensive links encompass almost any imaginable culinary/food topic, including recipes, kitchen/cooking tips, commercial/product sites, culinary tours, culinary history, festivals, chefs’ pages, reference sources and much, much more
•  Annotations accompany many links, except where a site’s name is self-explanatory
•  Sites are not arranged alphabetically or by category; searchable
•  Excellent; a great place for browsing; includes many arcane sites not readily found elsewhere


Mimi’s Cyber Kitchen

•  Created and maintained by Mimi Hiller
•  One of the earliest culinary/food sites on the Internet (online since 1995), this site currently links to over 5,000 sites in 53 categories
•  Links to commercial sites, contests, cookbooks, diets, ethnic/regional food, newspaper food sections, recipes and many related sites
•  Annotations accompany many links
•  Searchable
•  Still one of the best broad-based culinary food sites on the Internet; easy-to-navigate


Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)

•  Maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
•  This online version of the popular print publication provides up-to-date profiles of hundreds of occupations
•  Includes profiles for the following culinary-related occupations: food service managers, chefs/cooks/food preparation workers, food and beverage serving and related workers
•  Each occupational profiles includes “nature of work,” “working conditions,” employment outlook, wages, “Sources of Additional Information”
•  Also links to BLS data on employment projections and “Career Guide to Industries,” which provides an analytical overview of 45 basic industries (including foodservice)
•  Updated biennially, the OOH is one of the federal government’s most popular resources; an excellent resource for anyone researching occupational data in culinary-related industries (as well as many others)


“Virtual ~ Nutrition Center”

•  Maintained by Jim Martindale
•  Sub-page of Martindale’s “The Reference Desk”
•  This is a huge website directory, linking to thousands of sites for culinary-related and nutrition topics: cooking techniques/demonstrations, recipes, conferences, online journals, calculators, food science, food safety, dictionaries/glossaries and much more
•  International in scope
•  Annotations accompany many links
•  Contains significant commercial content
•  Excellent; this sub-page is one long document, but the extensiveness of its offerings is well worth the browsing effort


Websites represented on this page are for informational purposes only. Johnson & Wales University Library is not responsible for the accuracy, content or stability of any website linked to this page.

Compiled by Rick Keogh 10/99; updated 4/01, 11/03; revised 5/08

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