Find Recipes For a Party Like It's 1999
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With recipes, trivia, history, cooking tips, poems and an extensive listing of festivals by US state, country and month, Chef James' 25-year-old, daily-updated foodreference.com is a comforting survival from the early web. (Previously [2002], pointed out by Brian Jeffears on Mastodon)
foodreference.com is one of those sites that, every so often, someone links to in passing as part of a different post, but doesn't seem to have gotten its own feature post since 2002, so here it is. Its web design is archaic, but its content is still good, and being mostly a plain HTML site (except for the now-mandatory cookie warning) it won't slow down your painfully underpowered browsing device. If you need to check on nearly food festivals on the road from your PSP, you're solid!
foodreference.com is one of those sites that, every so often, someone links to in passing as part of a different post, but doesn't seem to have gotten its own feature post since 2002, so here it is. Its web design is archaic, but its content is still good, and being mostly a plain HTML site (except for the now-mandatory cookie warning) it won't slow down your painfully underpowered browsing device. If you need to check on nearly food festivals on the road from your PSP, you're solid!
Turns out the best of the web is the old web (yet again)!
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:26 PM on September 22 [7 favorites]
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:26 PM on September 22 [7 favorites]
previous.
taquitos.net
"more than 5,000 snack reviews." 2011
"reviews of more than 8000 snacks" 2019
"We've eaten and reviewed 11,227 snacks". 2024.
posted by clavdivs at 11:01 PM on September 22 [1 favorite]
taquitos.net
"more than 5,000 snack reviews." 2011
"reviews of more than 8000 snacks" 2019
"We've eaten and reviewed 11,227 snacks". 2024.
posted by clavdivs at 11:01 PM on September 22 [1 favorite]
Mod note: [Yum! Thanks, JHarris! This has been served on the sidebar and the Best Of blog, btw!]
posted by taz (staff) at 2:53 AM on September 23 [4 favorites]
posted by taz (staff) at 2:53 AM on September 23 [4 favorites]
Nice.
No substantive comment, just … nice.
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 5:07 AM on September 23 [2 favorites]
No substantive comment, just … nice.
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 5:07 AM on September 23 [2 favorites]
A++ would use again. The recipes are pure recipes, no pages of introductory filler to scroll through first!
posted by mrgoldenbrown at 5:56 AM on September 23 [1 favorite]
posted by mrgoldenbrown at 5:56 AM on September 23 [1 favorite]
Excellent. These old-school labor o' love sites are the shit.
posted by the sobsister at 8:34 AM on September 23 [1 favorite]
posted by the sobsister at 8:34 AM on September 23 [1 favorite]
I don't even know how to browse a site that isn't laden down with ads. Send help
posted by hydra77 at 1:25 PM on September 23 [2 favorites]
posted by hydra77 at 1:25 PM on September 23 [2 favorites]
Content aside (which I have yet to explore), I remember the confusion and thrill of adding a banner at the top of a page. I long for those days.
posted by TheHouseFinch at 7:48 AM on October 4 [1 favorite]
posted by TheHouseFinch at 7:48 AM on October 4 [1 favorite]
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