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Better Than 1000 Cookbooks

netbros — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:11:32 -0800

Recipe Goldmine. There are thousands of great recipes, but what makes this site special are the hundreds of recipes from popular restaurants everywhere. Many are "copycat" recipes and many are the originals shared by the chefs themselves. From Ruth's Chris recipes to Taco Bell, you'll be able to easily make it at home. For those on diet restrictions, Diabetic Recipes offers hundreds of doctor-approved recipes and menus plus cooking tips as well. Anita's Tried and True Low Fat Recipes is an excellent site focused on low-fat recipes. Includes a unique "cookbook recipe browser" which allows you to browse recipes in a cookbook format, with turning pages and all. Anita also offers a daily calorie counter, daily recommended values calculator, and more.

Food

liam — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:06:31 -0800

FoodCandy. A foodie hang.

New York Haute Cuisine

watsondog — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:23:03 -0800

The Epicurean online. Charles Ranhofer's 1893 book The Epicurean is available online from the Michigan State University Library and the Museum as part of their Feeding America digital project. Ranhofer was the head chef at Delmonico's Restaurant from 1862 to 1894; he popularized the Escoffier version of French cooking to America, modifying it to take advantage of American foods such as turkey, squash, corn, and Pacific salmon. Besides thousands of recipes, The Epicurean discusses table settings, menus, various methods of presentation, and kitchen management. The book may be downloaded as a PDF in two parts.

The Great Alice Waters

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:32:07 -0800

Go Ask Alice When She's Ten Feet Tall: Alice Waters's extraordinary influence on the way we shop, cook and eat makes her one of the great American heroes (and European too, check out the Larousse Gastronomique), mostly to those of us who have never been (and will never be) lucky enought to eat at Chez Panisse. [More inside.]

Wolfgang Puck And Celebrity Chefs

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:54:53 -0800

Just Because They're Celebrity Chefs Doesn't Mean They Aren't Damn Fine Cooks: We're all supposed to yawn when it comes to TV Chefs, but that's just as silly as ignoring a writer or an actress because they're famous. Wolfgang Puck's website, for instance, is generously full of the most enticing recipes. On another note, my favourite TV chef, Rick Stein, has online a superb list of UK suppliers. Do you know of any other cuisine auteurs on the Web who are as generous with their savvy? Which chef wouldn't you mind having as your own private cook?

PrinceValium — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:56:49 -0800

"I explain to them that they are in my restaurant. And they must have the flounder the way I make it."
One of Washington's top chefs draws the line with picky diners. Welcome rebellion or self-important rant? Discuss.
(This is a Washington Post "Live Online" chat. The chef's letter is the first entry; scroll down further for reactions on both sides.)

The Year In Pizza.

jonson — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:45:39 -0800

The Year In Pizza is a review of the happenings in one of the worst years ever for the pizza industry; what's touching, and quirky about this corporate industry wrap up is the inclusion of brief memorials for pizza murder victims, those workers slain by hungry robbers for whatever little cash they had on them. It's hard to imagine a "year in printing & bindery" review listing all the victims of industrial press manglings.

mathowie — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:22:09 -0800

Top Secret Recipes is a site that aims to reveal the secrets of almost any popular restaurant's items. They have McDonalds Shakes, Orange Julius, Hot Dog on a Stick (complete with video), and Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mints. Oh my god, they actually reverse-engineered McDonalds' Secret Sauce. Be careful with the knowledge of that last one, you could be killed just for possessing it. If food is considered a restaurant's intellectual property, how does this site continue without being sued silly?