Links
- Listen to Clifford A. Wright on the Radio via Podcast
- Podcasts
- The Restaurant Guys on WCTC-AM:
- On the Menu Radio: Interviewed by Peter J. Haigh and Ann Haigh on their radio show On The Menu from Pittsburgh, PA
- NPR's All Things Considered: Listen to Clifford talk about his James Beard Cookbook of the Year award winning A Mediterranean Feast
- Winefairy.com iWine Radio:
- Hot & Cheesy, on Wisconsin Public Radio: Clifford Wright interviewed by Jean Feraca about HOT & CHEESY
- KWMR-FM Marin County: Clifford A. Wright speaking about his book HOT & CHEESY (Wiley, 2012).
- Clifford A. Wright on Wisconsin Public Radio: Interviews on the Larry Meiller show
- Culinary
- Culinary sites, links, professional groups
- www.foodsiteoftheday.com: Although this site sounds interesting, with an index of more than 750 food link, it is of limited usefulness because of its randomness.
- www.1worldrecipes.com: a large and interesting site of authentic, and many spicy, recipes from around the world written by food professionals, which as a result means more recipes that are interesting and that work
- EGullet: An extensive and high-quality posting board and chat rooms of food aficionados (foodies) ranging from professionals to part-time cooks. The quality of the postings is quite high; some recipes with interesting discussions
- www.reluctantgourmet.com: Cooking Guide for Novices from a Novice. An informative and useful site for neophytes.
- GourmetSleuth.com: A gourmet food and cooking resource
- www.congocookbook.com: A wonderfully thorough site on the cooking of the Africa with lots of recipes and fascinating information.
- www.thousandeggs.com/cookbooks.html: Historical Culinary and Brewing Documents Online
- www.recipesource.com: New home of SOAR: Searchable On-line Archive of Recipes with 70,000 categorized recipes collected from Usenet group. The quality of the recipes is quite variable as this is reader-contributed only without any recipe testing, editing, or formatting.
- chowhound.com: A serious food site for serious food people, includes restaurant reviews and is useful for finding good restaurants in cities you may be visiting with posted discussions.
- www.roadfood.com: A site devoted exclusively to finding the most memorable local eateries along the highways and back roads of America
- www.foodreference.com: culinary history, quotes, recipes, trivia etc.
- Official Website of the Regional Culinary Heritage Network: Official website of the European regional culinary heritage network: mostly about northern Europe, but has the potential for becoming a great resource
- Cooking.com: The most comprehensive product selection for your kitchen with engaging tools
and content for foodies and home cooks alike. The site include product reviews,
videos, recipes, techniques and buying guides. Many recipes come from
top cookbooks and magazines, a growing number of recipes are shared by the cooks
in the site's community.
- Cheese and Butter
- webexhibits.org/butter/: An interesting site exploring the history and making of butter
- www.cheese.com: A resource site covering more than 650 different cheeses from around the world
- www.cheesemaking.com: New England Cheesemaking Supply: a nice site other tips and mail-order equipment to start making your own cheese, including mozzarella and goat cheeses.
- Cookbook Authors and Food Writers
- www.annamariavolpi.com: Step-by-step illustrated Italian recipes; articles on food
- www.leitesculinaria.com: Food Writer David Leite's site of writings, columns, recipes and generally interesting and informative pieces on the world of gastronomy
- www.wildmanstevebrill.com: Learn about edible and medicinal wild vegetables, herbs, greens, fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and mushrooms with NYC's favorite naturalist, "Wildman" Steve Brill.
- www.faithwillinger.com: Web site of cookbook author and Italian food expert Faith Willinger. Informative and personal site on regional Italian cuisine and food products
- John Thorne: John Thorne's "Simple Cooking" web site.
- Kitty Morse Site: Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca, and knows Moroccan food! Visit for sample recipes from her books, Cooking at the Kasbah and The Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco.
- Paula Wolfert: The web site of one of the greatest cookbook authors on the food of the Mediterranean.
- Martha Rose Shulman: Author of more than 30 books, Martha Rose Shulman writes extensively on Mediterranean cuisine and cooking light and healthy.
- Sam Gugino: Sam Gugino's site, a cook and food writer, recipes, Mediterranean cuisine.
- Karen Caplan: Fine cookbook from Karen Caplan, from the people behind Frieda's specialty fruits and vegetables.
- Jennifer Brizzi's Food Writing: Jennifer Brizzi's food writing and blogging on eating and cooking, an engaging and refreshing approach.
- David Latt's Food Blog: Emmy-award winning television producer David Latt is also a cook extraordinaire and his blog is well worth reading for its cooking insight and erudite culinary ruminations
- Abufares Said...The World According to a Tartoussi: Abufares, an architect, writes a delightful blog from his home in Tartous, Syria with lots of fascinating stories of Syrian food in general and Tartoussi food in particular.
- Bob del Grosso's Food Blog: An intelligent and well-written blog by an educator and avid cook who respects ingredients, culture, and history.
- Food and Cooking Magazines
- Saveur magazine:
- Cooking - Fine Cooking, ingredients, techniques and menus for people wh:
- Epicurious: shop for kitchen equipment, recipes, cooking tips, Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazine sites.
- Mediterranean Cuisines
- France
- www.delices-defrance.com/index-gb.htm: French site with recipes and gastronomy (in French).
- Greece
- www.GreekCuisine.com: very nice site with authentic Greek recipes, cookbooks, and listings of Greek restaurants in the U.S.
- Guide to Greek Food: Matt Barrett's guide to Greek food. This site is part of his larger guide to travel in Greece. Very helpful for anyone traveling to Greece.
- Italy
- www.coquinaria.it/new_index1024.html: tradition, culture and history of Italian cuisine, in Italian
- www.gamoto.net/ricette-cucina: A huge site in Italian with 2,000 recipes by category and by region
- www.sicilyweb.com: all about Sicily, including travel information, cuisine, links
- www.anticomartini.com: Traditional Venetian recipes from a famous restaurant in Venice
- www.castellobanfi.com: Tuscan and Ligurian recipes from the web site of famous wine producer
- Spain
- www.proper-spanish-tapas.com/resources.html: Everything you wanted to know about Spanish tapas
- www.andalucia.com/gastronomy/home.htm: a nice introduction to the food of Andalusia, with recipes
- www.uv.es/~baldovi/cuina/: Valencian cuisine in Valencian
- www.gospain.org/cooking: Go Spain is a searchable directory of selective Spain-related resources arranged alphabetically or by topic. In addition it covers Spanish fiestas all year round, cuisine, a forum, Spanish art and culture, facts and figures, a collection of pictures, and news and media among other topics.
- Medieval and Ancient Cuisines
- www.uwm.edu/~carlin: Prof. Martha Carlin's (Univ. Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) home page with links to important medieval food history sites
- Antique Roman Dishes - Collection: English translation and rendition of recipes from Roman works by Apicius, Cato, et. al. in English only without the Latin.
- Medieval/Renaissance Food Clip-Art Collection: Reproduction of drawings found in Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera published in 1570 and other works
- Cariadoc s Miscellany:
David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook tenth edition of a collection produced over the past forty years as part of our activity in the Society for Creative Anachronism, an organization of people who do historical recreation from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. For the cooking material visit http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/To_Milk_an_Almond.pdf
- Le Ménagier de Paris: reproduction of the French language cookbook from the late 14th century
- Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage:
- Arab
- middle eastern recipes:
- The Middle East:
- Lebanese Recipes from Habeeb.Com: A large and excellent page of Lebanese recipes from a site devoted to Lebanon's history and culture.
- Here is my title: This is a test!
- North Africa
- mybookofrai.typepad.com/cuisinealgerienne: Chef Farid Zadi's delightful, informative, and interesting site on Algerian cuisine
- friendsofmorocco.org: Excellent site on Moroccan cooking by the Friends of Morocco
- www.libyana.org/food: Libyan Cuisine--recipes and explanations of regional variations.
- FOCUS on Tunisia - Cuisine: Brief introductory description of Tunisian cuisine, without recipes.
- Moroccan Food: A small collection of authentic Moroccan recipes with photos and videos.
- Food Products
- Spanish Foods
- www.donajuana.com: The web site of an excellent California-based company selling Spanish products such as chorizo, sobrasada, jamón serrano, botifarra sausage, morcilla sausage, regional cheese, earthenware casseroles, paella pans of various sizes and Spanish paprika and saffron. Their products are both imported and homemade. I have ordered from them and am very pleased with their service and quality.
- www.tienda.com: Spanish food products from a Spanish company. A very good source for things Spanish.
- The Spanish Table: The Spanish Table is 4-store company in the western U.S. with a superlative selection of carbon steel paella pans, covered earthenware cazuelas, ollas, and cocottes, as well as a very fine selection of Spanish cheeses, cold cuts, olive oils, vinegars and other foods.
- Arnolds Sausages - Spanish sausages: Arnolds, a Brooklyn based company, sells a variety of Spanish chorizo and longaniza sausages that are otherwise hard to find.
- Spices
- www.kalustyans.com: Site of a Manhattan-based spice purveyor with a wide range of spices and spice blends and Middle Eastern products
- Penzeys: excellent mail-order spices
- Pendery's -Chiles and Spices: This is a different company than Penzey's. An excellent source for dried chiles and spices
- Indian Spice Guide: A complete glossary and guide to spices used in Indian cooking. Relevant and useful for some Middle Eastern cooking and general interest in spices.
- Italian Foods
- www.agferrari.com: Site of excellent San Francisco Bay area Italian products store A. G. Ferrari
- salumeriaitaliana.com: an excellent Boston-based purveyor of fine Italian cheeses, oils, and cured meats and salamis
- Prodotti Tipici: A wide range of typical Italian food products from this Italian-only site. If you read Italian it's worth a look--even if you don't read Italian, it's fascinating.
- Arthur Avenue: Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is the REAL Little Italy of New York. This web site is a terrific introduction to an old and important community and its food.
- Gustiamo: Gustiamo is probably the best of the Italian food product web sites offering very hard to find and unique products from olive oils to preserves to pasta. This is the only web site that offers the famous products of maestro Corrado Assenza of the Caffe Sicilia in Noto.
- La Quercia: Prosciutto as good as that made in Italy...from Iowa! That's right, some of the most magnificent prosciutto, speck, coppa, guanciale, pancetta, and lardo you'll ever taste.
- French Foods
- www.3pigs.com: French delicatessen, Les Trois Petits Cochons
- www.dartagnan.com: handmade, fresh, and natural pates, sausages, organic game and poultry, duck specialties, smoked meats, wild mushrooms, truffles
- www.frenchselections.com: authentic French specialties, including duck, truffles, Toulouse sausage, with recipes and links
- Turkish Foods
- www.tulumba.com: a great site for Turkish food products
- bestturkishfood.com: Chicago firm offering Turkish food products.
- AK Market Turkish Foods: A straightforward site offering Turkish foods, especially yufka pastry, Turkish cheeses such as tulum, and manti. Worth a visit and a must for Turkish foods.
- Greek Foods
- www.parthenonfoods.com: An excellent site for all kinds of hard to find Mediterranean food products, such as bone-in salt cod, basturma, kashkaval cheese, Bulgarian bacon.
- Greek food products: UK-based Greek food products purveyor
- Groceries
- chefshop.com: A wide variety of canned and fresh gourmet items for sale and shipping, a site well worth visiting and exploring.
- www.friedas.com: Web site of Freida's specialty fruits and vegetables. Great source for hard-to-fine foods.
- www.kingarthurflour.com: King Arthur Flour company web site. An excellent source for a variety of flours and baking equipment.
- www.zingermans.com: Web site of Zingerman’s, an Ann Arbor, Michigan purveyor offering a wide range of Mediterranean products such as olive oils, cheeses, and vinegars.
- www.pastacheese.com: an excellent source for hard-to-find Mediterranean products especially pasta, cheese, and meats
- iGourmet:
On-line food purveyor of specialty cheeses and other fine products including many Mediterranean foods. The site is easy to navigate, has a huge range of top-quality products, excellent shopping cart and excellent delivery, and categories of food by country. Highly recommended.
- Gourmet Sleuth: Hit or miss, but worth a look if you're having difficulty finding groceries elsewhere.
- Gourmet Food Store: A great store for Italian, French, and Spanish products, but also duck confit, foie gras, East European sausages, merguez sausages needed for Tunisian cooking and Toulouse sausages needed for Cassoulet.
- Marky's Gourmet Foods: Marky's, a Miami, Florida based company, is an excellent source for hard-to-find gourmet foods such as fresh frozen porcini mushrooms, foie gras, basturma, truffles, Scottish salmon, prosciutto, jamon serrano, argan oil, olive oils, cheeses, and much more.
- Gourmet Food Store: A wonderfully thorough food site offering many French, Italian, and Spanish specialties including Toulouse sausage for cassoulet, foie gras, truffle oils, caviar, escargot, chorizo, and much more.
- Cheese
- www.fromages.com: French cheese and cheese purveyor based in the U.K. Very informative site with huge range of French cheeses. Worth a visit even if you're not buying cheese.
- Willow Hill Farm: Vermont farm offering Certified Organic grass-fed lamb as well as cow's milk cheese and sheep's milk yogurt.
- Artisanal Cheese: Terrific source for artisanal cheeses.
- Karoun Dairies: Karoun Dairies, a California company, is an excellent source for Near Eastern cheeses such as a variety of feta, labna (strained yogurt), jubna hilwa (sweet cheese), Syrian cheese, touma (village cheese), akawi or ackawi cheese,
- Cheese from iGourmet: Although mentioned above under "Groceries," iGourmet should not be ignored for its excellent selection of cheeses.
- Meats
- www.nimanranch.com: Site of the best hormone-free meat products sold in America; very high quality
- www.mountroyal.com: game purveyor, including boar and venison
- www.hudsonvalleyfoiegras.com: foie gras and other duck products
- Jamison Farm: Pennsylvania farm offering high quality lamb used by many restaurant chefs.
- Stockyards: Colorado lamb
- Eat Wild: All about grass-fed meat
- Heritage Foods: Site of Heritage Foods, organic and specialized breeds of various animals, especially turkeys.
- Fabrique Delices: A U.S. based company producing or importing very high quality sausages, charcuterie, pates, mousse, specialty meats, Toulouse sausage, merguez sausage.
- D'Artagnan: Specialty Meats: Excellent source for gourmet meats such as Muscovy duck, truffles, foie gras and much else.
- Lone Mountain Cattle Co. 100 % Fullblood Wagyu Beef: Wagyu is a breed of cattle naturally predisposed to produce beef that is
densely marbled. In fact, Wagyu beef surpasses USDA marbling standards
for prime-grade beef. Often referred to as the "foie gras of beef,"
Wagyu has an exquisitely tender texture and incomparable, luxurious
taste. Lone Mountain is the place to buy Wagyu.
- Middle Eastern Foods
- www.holylandoliveoil.com: Organic Palestinian olive oil produced by small farmers in the northern West Bank; portions of proceeds will benefit children welfare
- www.shamra.com: Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food products
- Zamouri Spices: Offers a wide variety of spices used in Arab cooking (except Aleppo pepper) as well as terracotta North African tagines and argan oil
- Shatila Food Products: The single best Arabic pastry shop in America. Lebanese and Palestinians will tell you that Shatila pastries are as good as the best in Beirut. Their shipping is quick, inexpensive, and efficient. A must for all lovers of baklawa, burrma, bassma, ballourie, mini roses, and more.
- Kitchen Equipment
- Kitchen Equipment
- www.world-cuisine.com: Your source for wholesale culinary equipment, cookware, bakeware, kitchenware, appliances and French Chinaware
- www.fornobravo.com: Authentic Italian wood-fired brick ovens
- www.KitchenAid.com: web site of the appliance manufacturer; they make both major and minor kitchen appliances such as dishwashers and mixers
- Chef Walter Potenza: Terra Cotta Clay Cookery, Pots Baking Ware
- Mugnaini Imports, LLC: Italian Wood Burning Ovens
- Shop Online with Cuisinart:
- Williams-Sonoma: Williams-Sonoma offers some of the highest quality kitchenware available. Their well-designed and easily navigated site is fun to explore.
- Sur la Table: A well-rounded and convenient kitchen supply store with a strong on-line catalog.
- Wood-fired Brick Pizza Ovens: Italian-made Pavesi and Acunto Napoli Brick pizza ovens, commercial and in-home. Pavesi ovens are among the most respected and trusted pizza ovens worldwide. Acunto Napoli has been synonymous with quality wood fired ovens since 1892. Over four generations of the Acunto family have built these traditional brick ovens by hand in their Naples workshop, preserving the family secrets of their trade and fiercely protecting the tradition of Neapolitan pizza.
- Finest Kitchenware: Unbiased reviews of kitchenware
- Restaurants, Cooking Schools, and Food and Wine Tours
- Restaurants, Cooking Schools, and Food and Wine Tours
- www.cellartours.com: a company that runs food and wine tours of Spain, Portugal, and Italy
- www.cooking-schools.us: Directory of cooking schools
- www.allculinaryschools.com: A comprehensive guide to education and careers in the culinary arts
- www.culinary-schools.us: Reviews and recommends culinary schools in the US
- www.cookinfrance.com: A relaxed friendly hands-on cooking holiday in the Dordogne, France. Learn to cook French and world cuisine with an experienced British chef.
- Wine and Food Tours of Spain: "Vinophoria offers exclusive wine, food and cultural tours for travelers who are keen to discover the sensational wines, diverse cuisine and rich culture of Spain in style and comfort."
- Le Baccanti: Select Wine & Gourmet Holidays and Events: A respected Italian wine and food tour company.
- French Alps ski chalet rentals: Morzine Ski Chalets – a boutique chalet company
providing 5 star serviceand luxury catered & self-catered chalets
in the heart of Morzine & Les Gets, which have immediate access to
Europe’s largest ski area, the Portes du Soleil.
- Restaurant.com: Restaurant.com offers discounts to over 15,000
restaurants across the country.
- Travel sites with restaurant recommendations
- Travel sites with restaurant recommendations
- chowhound.com: Searchable site by topic with restaurant recommendations and general culinary commentary by foodies and travelers with an otherwise above average knowledge of cuisine.
- CuisineNet: Local dining guide and visitor-reviews of some 12,000 restaurants by state. The reviewers tend to be non-food travelers with below average knowledge of cuisine, but a useful site nonetheless, especially for smaller cities.
- Cheap Tickets: Cheap Tickets has been around a long time and they're excellent. I use to use them before the Internet. You'll find very good cheap flights, but this is not the end-all cheap flight/hotel site most of which can find you a deal in a cold heartless hotel away from the center. For that you'll have to check out the some of the discount airlines not covered by their search engine, for instance, Ryan Air for inter-European flying.
- Travelocity.com-airline tickets, hotel accommodations and car reservations online: A good travel site, with deals similar to Cheap Flights. A Los Angeles to Barcelona flight with one stop and with 6 nights in a 3-star hotel not in the center of town was $1,042 on Cheap Tickets and $983 on Travelocity, but with two stops.
- www.deliciousitaly.com: Food and drink information for the independent traveler in Italy.
- Matt Barrett's Greek Travel Guide: This constantly updated site is probably the best Greek travel site on the web. If you're going to Greece you cannot not visit Matt Barrett's site.
- Hotel Searching: This excellent, clean and understandable web site is probably the best of the hotel search sites. It's a meta-search engine that scours many other sites. It's my "go-to" hotel search site.
- Botany
- Horticulture
- www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/: Purdue University's Center for New Crops and Plant Products, New Crop Online Resource Program
- Purdue University's Consumer Horticulture Home Page:
- UC Vegetable Research and Information Center:
- Agriculture
- Ag-Links: Links for the Agriculture Industry
- USDA
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service:
- USDA AMS Farmer's Markets:
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- www.fao.org/fi/sidp/products.htm: Adobe Acrobat downloadable studies on world fish and fishing from United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:
- Botany
- www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-378.html: Article by Mary Lamberts on Latin American Vegetable from Advances in New Crops, Janick and Simon, eds.
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code) - International Code of Botanical Nomenclature:
- Missouri Botanical Garden Web Server:
- OPTIMA Web: OPTIMA Web: Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area
- Species 2000 Home Page: The goal of the Species 2000 project is to create a validated checklist of all the world's species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes).
- The Official Website of the Society for Economic Botany (SEB):
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Botany (Biosciences):
- Alphabetic Spice Index: Multilingual alphabetic spice index by Austrian chemist Gernot Katzer. An informative, accurate, and thorough resource.
- Missouri Botanical Garden: W3TROPICOS: Missouri Botanical Garden VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files.
- : Ethnoherbalist explores the biology, cultural history and health benefits of plant-based medicine. By Prof. Kevin Curran, Professor of Biology at the University of San Diego who teaches courses on cell biology and ethnobotany.
- Seafood
- Seafood
- www.seafoodwatch.org: Excellent site of Monterey Bay, California Aquarium on seafood that are good choices for sustainable seafood and lists of seafood to be avoided. Regional seafood guide. Printable pocket-size guides available
- www.oceansalive.org: Seafood choices from the Environmental Defense Network
- manandmollusc.net: Resource site for anything to do with molluscs
- www.fishbase.org/search.cfm: searchable database by common and scientific name of more than 25,000 species of fish
- Libraries and Cultural Studies
- Libraries and Cultural Studies
- Food Photography: Fotosearch Food Photography. Stock photography portal featuring thousands of images of various foods and dining topics from over 90 top photo sources.
- digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/project.html: Michigan State University Library's The Historical American Cookbook Project: Feeding America.
- rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/: Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage
- Michigan State University Library Cookery and Food Collection:
- www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk: the web site of The British Museum
- eclipsi.bib.ub.es/v20/vtls/english/index.html: University of Barcelona library catalog access and search in English
- Library of Congress Home Page:
- The British Library:
- Nutrition and Food Policy
- Nutrition
- www.foodfit.com: a well-designed and accessible site offering recipes and products for healthy but good eating. Information on nutrition, fitness, and organic oods.
- Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts exhibit, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Mediterranean Diet: Heart-healthy Mediterranean Diet
- Eat Well Guide: Find good food now. A site for finding by keyword, zip code, city and state the local, sustainable, and organic food sources. You can plant a trip for the same with its tools.