Cooking & Culinary Arts Schools - Resources

Food-related web sites:

• Epicurious: a site put together by Bon Appétit and Gourmet magazines, with a searchable database of recipes, plus ingredient lists, wine databases, restaurant guides, news, features from the magazines, and more. One of the best sites on the Web, period.
• The Food Network: An entire cable television network devoted entirely to food and cooking! Are you surprised that I watch this practically all day? Well, when I can. They have shows hosted by some of America's top chefs, plus listings of recipes from the last two weeks' worth of shows.

Beer, Wine and Spirits

• Ardent Spirits
• A-WOW: American Wine on the Web, a new and exciting WWW bi-weekly publication for wine lovers.
• Bar Asterie
• Eric's Beer and Homebrewing Page
• Spencer Thomas' Beer and Brewing, now hosted by The Real Beer Page
• California Wine Country Virtual Tour
• CocktailDB
• Cocktail Time
• DrinkBoy: Adventures in Cocktails
• The Edinburgh Malt Whisky Tour
• The Guinness Page: Guinness is good for you!
• The Real Beer Page

Books and Magazines (Print and Online)

• au JUiCe: "the Journal of Eatin', Drinkin' and Screwin' round"
• The internet Epicurean: Feature articles, recipes, chef's forum, weekly featured menus.
• The Los Angeles Times' Food Section
• Gourmet Guides, bargain cookbooks for professional chefs, serious cooks & collectors

Chiles and Hot Food

• The Chile-Heads Page
• Big Bruce's Gunpowder Foods: Texas chili fixins and seasonings
• Chile Today - Hot Tamale: Home of the Chile of the Month Club & the Hot Sauce of the Month Club.
• Death by Curry
• FireGirl's Chile Pepper Wonderland: Cooking, eating, growing, collecting, worshipping, studying, buying, using and discussing chiles, brought to you by superhero FireGirl and Mrs. FireGirl.

Cooking Resources (General)

• The Cook's Thesaurus suggests substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives for dieters, inexpensive substitutes for gourmets on a budget, and innovative replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients.
• Food Etc., a site featuring info on obtaining their weekly menus, with recipes and shopping lists, food facts, etc., through subscription and delivered weekly via email. The site also provides cookbook reviews and ordering resources, Weekend cooking and getaway ideas, a Northwest Corner with our favorite restaurants, a list of events, wineries, etc.

Dairy Products

• Egg Farm Dairy in Peekskill, New York. Run by cheesemaker Jonathan White and Chef Charlie Palmer, they're "setting the dairy industry back 100 years" with their marvelous, old-style cultured butter, cream and cheeses.

Desserts and Confectionery

• The Chocolate Archives
• The Chocolate Lover's Page
• Godiva Online: A Chocolate Lovers' Playground, from Godiva Chocolatier and Chocolatier magazine

Fruits and Vegetables, Etc.

• Chuck's Produce Talk: Have questions about produce? Chuck works in the produce department of a Marin County, California grocery and answers your questions here.
• The Garlic Page. This page really stinks ... in the best possible way.
• The Produce Quiz Home Page, featuring the marvelous and brain-teasing quizzes on produce that are posted weekly to the Chefs on the Internet Mailing List by Richard Leibowitz. Test your knowledge!

Fun Stuff

• Iowa State University brings you Tasty Insect Recipes. Ewwwww.

Herbs and Gardening

• Food for Thought: Basil
• The Gourmet Gardener: Dozens of pages with tasting notes on various culinary herbs and edible flowers.

Japanese Food

• Rolling Your Own Sushi: Textbook quality, with diagrams. Includes the ever-popular California Roll
• The Web's first (and only, as far as I can tell) Japanese Pizza Page. Betcha ya never had Squid Ink Pizza before ...
• Wade's Virtual Sushi Bar

Professional Resources

• The Australian Culinary Federation
• Bakery-Net, a storehouse of professional baking information.
• Chefs and Cooks on the Internet Mailing List
• Chefs' Professional Agency: Culinary and management specialists for the hospitality industry since 1965.
• Home page of The Culinary Professional's Online Newsletter, edited and moderated by Chef Gary Holleman, author of Food and Wine Online.
• HotelNet, founded by Steve Adams, CEC, is a BBS for the entire hospitality industry: hotel GMs, F&B directors, Chefs and more.

Regional Cuisines and Cooking Styles

• Ananse's Web: The African Culinary Network
• A Taste of Brazil
• A Cajun Family's Recipe Book, by Merlin Bodin of New Iberia, Louisiana
• Cookery New Orleans Style, Chiqui Collier's cookbook online, and a link to her French Quarter shop of local spices, sauces, and more.
• Czecho-Slovak Recipes from Eleanor's Kitchen
• Hills Hospitality Training and Consulting, a large site about Australian cuisine, with links to the Australian Culinary Federation, and more
• Hungarian Cuisine
• A collection of Indian recipes
• Italian Wine and Food, a subsection of a nifty website based in Rome, called Made in Italy
• Check out the barbecuing action at Sweet Jimmy's Smokehouse

Restaurants and Chefs on the Web

When I started this section a few years ago, there were very few restaurants and chefs with home pages. Now every restaurant, chef and his or her grandmother has a web page, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't keep up this list much anymore.

• Antoine's Restaurant, New Orleans, founded in 1840. One of the world's great dining experiences, and one of the best restaurant Web sites I've ever seen.
• The Border Grill in Santa Monica, California. Chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken
• Champs Élysées, a top-rated French restaurant in downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Chef John Folse, CEC, AAC, of Lafitte's Landing Restaurant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and 1994 President of the American Culinary Federation
• The Gumbo Shop, in New Orleans' French Quarter