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RECIPES


All Recipes

•  Sponsored by Allrecipes.com
•  Contains thousands of recipes arranged by "chapter" (course, food type, quick & easy, holiday, ethnic)
•  Recipes contain the following information: ingredients/directions, recipe scaling for increased quantities, nutritional breakdown, metric/U.S. standard conversion, suggestions for similar recipes, print options (3x5, 4x6, full page) and Recipe Ecard
•  "Special Diets" provides recipes for the following types of diet: dairy-free, diabetic, egg-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, vegan, vegetarian
•  Excellent help/search and FAQ features
•  Searchable by category, ingredient, alphabetically
•  Measurement conversion link
•  Extensive and easy-to-use, this site is one of the premium recipe sites currently available


AsiaRecipe.com

•  Sponsored by AsiaRecipe.com
•  Provides food and recipe-related links to 22 Asian countries
•  Profile of each country contains basic information, culture (especially food history), recipes, ingredients, cooking methods
•  "Evolution of Cuisine" traces the history of food in Asian culture
•  "Religious Food Practices" provides insights and guidelines for food preparation and consumption for Judaism, various branches of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
•  Also includes links to recipe substitutions, food substitutions, herb information, glossary
•  Best current source for in-depth culinary information for Asia in general and for specific countries


Cooking Resources: Conversion Calculator
•  By Global Gourmet
•  Convert feet to meters, pounds to grams, gallons to liters, and Fahrenheit to centigrade.
•  Convert from a weight to a volume using the Grams Converter
•  Measures & Equivalency Tables:
    Liquid and Dry Measure Equivalents, English 
    Volume to Weight Conversions
    Fruit, Nut, and Vegetable Equivalents 
    Metric Measurement Equivalents (convert U.S. measurements into metric)
•  Also includes glossary of British culinary terms and their American equivalents


FATFREE

•  Sponsored by FATFREE.com
•  Provides over 4,600 fat free and low-fat vegetarian dishes
•  Provides links to over 50 specific types of recipes for the following categories: Specific dishes (breakfast, drinks, sandwiches, etc.), regional, specific foods (fruit, tofu, grains, pasta, etc.), breads, salads, soups, desserts, condiments
•  Option for submitting recipes
•  Mailing list archive and e-mail features
•  Links to USDA Nutrient Database
•  Searchable
•  One of the best sources for this category of recipes


IChef Recipes

•  Browse 50 recipe categories (by course, food type, holiday)
•  Searchable by ingredient(s), keyword(s)
•  Also provides links to cookbook reviews, cooking techniques, wine, feature articles, forums, recipe clubs
•  Registration required (it's free)
•  Archives (weekly recipes, weekly articles, tips and hints)
•  Free newsletter
•  Great source for many types of recipes, but it's not extensive for international ones


Meals for You

•  Sponsored by Point of Choice
•  Provides access to over 10,000 recipes (browseable by course, popularity, ingredient, nutrition, ethnic/international or easy-to-prepare)
•  Recipes include the following: preparation time (minutes), cooking time (minutes), calories, fat content, cholesterol, carbohydrates)
•  Also provides "special diets" information, dietary exchange tables
•  "Meal Plans" features 22 categories of meal plans (casseroles, lighter fare, pasta meals, etc.), with multiple suggested meal plans for each category
•  Each suggested meal includes recipes for all component dishes in the meal, complete with nutritional information
•  Searchable
•  Links to nutritional information from "Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy"
•  One of the best sites currently available for meal planning


Meals.com

•  Sponsored by Nestle USA
•  Over 10,000 recipes (browseable by course, cuisine, special diets, holidays, cooking method)
•  Recipes include instructions, preparation and cooking times; nutritional information is not provided
•  "Suggested Meals" features 6 categories of meal plans (entertaining, quick and easy, weekly, leftover cooking, and cook once/serve twice) with multiple suggested meal plans for each category
•  Membership required (it's free)
•  "Site Map" is recommended for the most productive searching
•  Searchable
•  Good source for meal planning, especially for leftovers and quick-and-easy recipes


Mimi's Cyber Kitchen

•  Maintained by Mimi Hiller, J.B. Hiller and Jennifer Hiller
•  This mammoth site links to over 5,100 sites in 55 recipe, culinary and food categories
•  Provide links to recipe archives, recipes by course, ingredient, ethnic/international, appliance
•  Also links to commercial food sites, contests, cooking software, cooking videos, food associations, mailing lists, newspaper food sections, product reviews, Usenet food newsgroups, and many other categories
•  Along with Kitchen Links, this is one of the top meta-sites and a priority place to begin any sort of recipe, food or culinary research


Recipe Archives

•  Maintained by Stephanie da Silva
•  Provides links to over 30,000 recipes in 32 categories
•  Most recipes are by course or food type, with a modest number of links to ethnic cuisines
•  Many recipes are collections from various cooking-related newsgroups
•  Most recipes have not been kitchen tested
•  Searachable
•  Good source for recipes which have been "...contributed by people just like you"


Recipe Link

•  Affililated with "Kitchen Link" meta-site
•  "Home to thousands of recipes shared by our visitors since 1996!"
•  Links to a vast number of sites for many recipe categories, including celebrations/holidays, everyday cooking, "healthy"/low-fat cooking, "special diets," outdoor cooking, herbs/sauces, ethnic/international cooking, cooking with specific equipment/processes
•  Includes an A-to-Z "Site Index" for easy navigation
•  Searchable
•  Includes "Recipe Archives" and free newsletter
•  "Daily" features include "Today's Menu," newspaper food sections, message-board postings
•  Also links to related products/services, including cookbooks, software, shopping, "freebies"
•  Excellent; this should be one of the first websites to investigate when beginning any sort of recipe, food or culinary research


RecipeLand.com

•  Maintained by Sean Wenzel
•  Contains thousands of browsable by the following categories: "favorites," baking, holidays, desserts, ethnic/regional
•  Also may be browsed by type of dish and ingredient
•  Includes limited recipe reviews, e-recipe mailing list
•  Includes "US/Metric Conversion" feature
•  Registration required (it's free)
•  One of the best, most comprehensive recipe sites currently available


Recipes Folder

•  Sponsored by Eserver
•  This collection of recipes is primarily (but not exclusively) vegetarian-oriented
•  Provides links to other vegetarian recipe pages and "animal rights" pages
•  Offers conversions (tables and plaintext) for American/British cooking measurements


Recipes: Subject Collection

•  Sponsored by the Internet Public Library (IPL)
•  Links to 100 sites for a wide variety of recipe resources, including meta-sites, general recipe sites, ethnic/regional recipes, food-specific sites, "healthy lifestyle" sites, food industry councils/organizations
•  Short annotations accompany most sites
•  This page is not alphabetized or categorized, but it's still very useful for linking to many of the best recipe pages currently available (as well as some unusual sites)


RecipeSource

•  Sponsored by RecipeSource
•  Formerly known as "SOAR" (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes)
•  Mammoth site with over 70,000 recipes (probably the most comprehensive recipe site currently available)
•  Most recipes are for ethnic cuisines by region, by type of dish, or for restricted and special diets
•  Searchable
•  FAQ feature provides tips for maximizing the efficiency of searches
•  Due to its sheer volume and ease of navigability, this is an excellent place to start research for recipes


Special Diets

•  Sponsored by Google Web Directory
•  Links to "special diets" recipes for the following categories: allergy, breads, diabetic, heart, high fiber, low carbohydrate, low fat, low salt, macrobiotic, renal
•  Also links to sites for nutritional eating advice, food preservation, dietary exchanges, general recipe sites with "special diets" components
•  Quick, very useful source for links to this type of information


Webtender

•  Created and maintained by Pal Loberg
•  Provides instructions for mixing over 6,000 alcoholic drinks and over 200 non-alcoholic drinks
•  "Browse Drinks" allows browsing for drinks by name, glass type, category, alcohol, ingredient
•  Searchable
•  "Bartender's Handbook" provides advice on basic bartending procedures, equipment, recipes, blood alcohol level calculation and related topics
•  Practical and informative site; probably the most comprehensive of its type currently available


Yahoo! Society and Culture > Food and Drink > Cooking > Recipes

•  Over 2,800 recipes categorized as follows: ingredient, cooking methods, ethnic and regional, holidays, special dietary needs, specific dishes
•  Brief annotations accompany many recipes
•  One of the best places for quick links to a wide variety of recipe categories; easy-to-navigate


YumYum.Com

•  "The Recipe Website for Everyday Cooks" has a database of 20,000 recipes
•  Recipes, categorized in 18 topics, primarily by food type (meats, seafood, etc.) or by course (appetizers, casseroles, desserts, etc.)
•  Also searchable by keyword


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

Compiled by Rick Keogh 10/99; updated 3/03; links last checked 2/08

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