Links
- Culinary
- Culinary sites, links, professional groups
- www.foodieview.com: This site uses a meta-search engine to find more than one million recipes in a variety of categories. It is a well-designed site and easy to use, but the recipes themselves are not necessarily tested, edited, or formatted. The quality of the recipes ranges the gamut and reader comments on recipes they've tried are unmoderated and personal opinions only.
- 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
- forums.egullet.com/index.php?act=idx: An extensive and high-quality posting board and chat rooms of food aficinados (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
- dmoz.org/Home/Cooking/: The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. This is the opening page of their cooking section. Excellent and vast resource.
- directory.google.com/Top/Home/Cooking/World_Cuisines/: World cuisine links
- 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.
- www.soupsong.com: All about soups, from around the world with good recipes, some Mediterranean, and lots of food history and lore.
- 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: A basic on-line store for kitchen equipment, recipes, cooking tips. American and International in scope. It's not a bad place to start when looking for something in the way of kitchen equipment.
- www.coquinaria.nl/english/links.htm: very good links page of Dutch culinary historian
- Zester Daily: The Culture of Food and Wine: Zester Daily is a collection of experienced journalists working to
provide readers with the latest news and information from around
the globe about all aspects of food and wine. As independent
professionals committed to quality journalism and high ethical
standards, they follow their instincts and interests wherever they take them. The result is a constant flow of fresh, lively stories found
nowhere else. I should know; I write for them.
- 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.
- Listen to Clifford A. Wright on the Radio via Podcast
- Podcasts
- Evan Kleiman's GOOD FOOD on KCRW-FM: There are some 20 different shows to listen to, follow the link and choose your show. All the shows listed have interviews with Clifford along with other guests. If you don't see Clifford's name, then you need to click on their link to read the full description. To determine where in the show the interview you want is, look at the description once you click the link to the show and see where "Clifford A. Wright" is listed.
- 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
- The Good Life with Guy Bowers, KNSS Wichita, Kansas: Interview starts about 29:30 into broadcast. Clifford speaks about his book The Best Soups in the World
- NPR's All Things Considered: Listen to Clifford talk about his James Beard Cookbook of the Year award winning A Mediterranean Feast
- 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.italianmade.com/home.cfm: The official site of Italian food and wine produced by the Italian Trade Commission in New York; an excellent and informative site
- www.italianmade.com/regions/cuisine4.cfm: The cuisine of the province of Lombardy in Italy
- www.gamoto.net/ricette-cucina: A huge site in Italian with 2,000 recipes by category and by region
- www.mangatia.com/LINKS.htm: Site of Salumeria Mangatia in Sardinia; Sardinian culinary history, recipes, and food products
- www.sicilyweb.com: all about Sicily, including travel information, cuisine, links
- www.spaghettitaliani.com/RicetteIt.html: many Italian recipes in Italian; English version under construction as of Feb. 2002
- www.ighiottoni.it: The wine and cuisine of the Lago de Garda region of northern Italy--in Italian
- www.arca.net/recipes/index.htm: Tuscan and Florentine recipes
- 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.minorisa.es/gastronomia/: Catalan site on the gastronomy of Bages, a region of Catalonia, with many recipes using mongetes, local white haricot beans; in Catalan
- Cuina Catalana: Catalan recipes in Catalan
- 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.
- www.arrakis.es/~jols/tapas: all about Spanish tapas
- Palestine-Israel
- jeru.huji.ac.il/food.htm: food history of Palestine from ancient times to modern Israel
- Turkey
- www.columbia.edu/~sss31/Turkiye/cuisine.html: an excellent site with recipes and resources for Turkish food products as well as Turkish restaurants in the U.S. by a Turkish educator, Dr. Suleyman Sadi Seferoglu, who is a researcher at Columbia University.
- www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2944/index1.html: the Sultan's Feast Turkish Cooking Site with Turkish recipes and list of spices used with their Turkish names.
- 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
- www.geocities.com/tdcastros/Historyserver/indexenglish.html: Web site of Spanish historian Teresa de Castro. Articles on food in medieval Spain, in Spanish and Italian
- 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
- www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/culinary/: excellent site of the New York Public Library's Culinary History research guide to their research libraries
- Cariadoc's Miscellany: huge site of medieval/renaissance hobbyists including a large listing of recipes translated into English from a wide variety of medieval cookbooks, without the original language
- Le Ménagier de Paris: reproduction of the French language cookbook from the late 14th century
- Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage:
- Arab
- www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2654/: (called "Mediterranean Cuisine" most of the recipes, ranging from stews to fish, are from the Middle East)
- www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Recipes/RecipesDB.html: (many Arab recipes from the ArabicNews web site)
- 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.
- 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.
- ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/food.htm: Libyan Cuisine--excellent site with lots of Libyan recipes; the site also has lots of information on the history and culture of Libya.
- www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Cookbook/about_cb_wh.html: the African Cookbook with some recipes from North Africa
- FOCUS on Tunisia - Cuisine: Brief introductory description of Tunisian cuisine, without recipes.
- Food Products
- Spanish Foods
- www.productsfromspain.net: Although a Spanish company they do ship world wide making their site worth visiting. They are particularly strong in the area of Spanish wines and spirits. In English.
- www.angelesmolina.com: A very nice Spanish site offering products of the "Cerdo Iberico" especially pig products such as cured ham and shoulder. Although they only ship to European Union countries, this is an interesting site to visit for lovers of cured hams. In English and Spanish.
- 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.casanoguera.com/casanoguera/noguera_eng.html: This producer of a wide variety of Catalan style sausages, including numerous botifarra sausages, is based in Catalonia and caters to clients who are mostly retailers, but the site is quite interesting to visit and read about their pork products and it's in English
- 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.
- Spices
- www.adrianascaravan.com: A food products source that bills themselves as the place for every ingredient for every recipe you will ever read. And they are right.
- 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
- Italian Foods
- www.gourmetsardinia.com: a must-visit source for all things Sardinian including food products such as fregula and pane carasau
- www.gastarea.com: An Italian site in Italian and English offering a wide range of Italian gourmet products including olive oils, mostarda, pasta, etc.
- 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
- Esperya - Italian Food Experience: a good source for food products
- The Olio & Olive Store: The Olio & Olive Store, a selection of excellent Italian extra virgin olive oils from different regions as you never tasted before.
- 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.
- Corti Brothers: Gourmet food and fine wine Italian grocery store. The best source for rarer Mediterranean food products, especially Spanish and Italian. Proprietor Darrell Corti is a true gastronomer whose abiding and deep love of the products of good cuisine is as knowledgeable as any you are likely to find.
- 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
- www.tasteofturkey.com: High quality products from Turkey, the Middle East and the Mediterranean
- 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.rogersintl.com: Importers of the Mediterranean's finest food products, serving professional and discriminating consumers. Artisanal products.
- 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
- Ethnic Grocer: This site is growing as a source offering food products from many countries including the Mediterranean. One can "shop by product" and "shop by country."
- 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.
- Ingredients Gourmet: An excellent site for a variety of regional Mediterranean foods, divided into regional categories such as Asturias in Spain or Apulia in Italy or Normandy in France.
- Gourmet Sleuth: Hit or miss, but worth a look if you're having difficulty finding groceries elsewhere.
- African Food: The site to visit if cooking the food of sub-Saharan Africa. It's worth visiting simply to see how another culture cooks--lot's of stuff you've never heard of. I've bought from them before and they provide excellent service.
- 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.
- 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.nyprimemeats.com: New York Aged USDA Prime Meats and other gourmet foods; expensive, but it is prime.
- 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
- Champain Valley Rabbitry: Fresh rabbits from Vermont family farmers
- Eat Wild: All about grass-fed meat
- Heritage Foods: Site of Heritage Foods, organic and specialized breeds of various animals, especially turkeys.
- Grimaud ducks: Muscovy ducks
- Lobel's: Considered by many to be the finest USDA Prime meat to be found.
- Niche Pork: A great source for pork and understanding what makes a quality product
- Fabrique Delices: A U.S. based company producing or importing very high quality sausages, charcuterie, pates, mousse, specialty meats, Toulouse sausage, merguez sausage.
- 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
- Daynas Market Mediterranean Food: A Livonia, Michigan based online grocery store dedicated to providing authentic Mediterranean products. They have hard-to-find items such as bulgur, cow's milk samna (ghee), moghrabiyya (pasta balls/large couscous), marquq bread, spices, farik (freekeh), basturma etc.
- 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
- Mid-EastPantry: A large site with many Middle Eastern foods, such as freekeh (farik), bulgur, dried fava, pigeon peas, dried sujuk, basturma, Nabulsi cheese, Akawi (Ackawi) cheese, Domiyati cheese, Halloumi cheese, Greek kefalotyri and kashkaval cheese, lubna balls in oil, Lebanese olive oil, Turkish sunflower seed oil, fresh flatbreads and much more.
- Lebanese and Middle Eastern Foods: Middle Eastern foods such as couscous, maghribiyya (mougrabiyeh), kishk, Cortas-brand apricot jam, grains, and a wide variety of breads. Lots more good stuff.
- 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
- tagines.com: Seller of cooking and serving tagines for North African cuisines
- www.KitchenAid.com: web site of the appliance manufacturer; they make both major and minor kitchen appliances such as dishwashers and mixers
- www.kitchensforcooks.net: kitchen design by designer Deborah Krasner
- www.cookswares.com: cooking equipment including the Sitram Professional line
- Bowery Kitchen Supply: cooking equipment including earthenware North African tagines
- 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.
- 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.openlist.com: Comprehensive local search for restaurants, featuring reviews, recommendations, ratings, and user comments
- 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.
- letsgetcookin.com: Los Angeles area cooking school.
- Central Market (Texas) Cooking Schools:
The cooking schools of the Central Market supermarkets in Texas. Some of the best cooking classes offered in the U.S.
- California Culinary Arts School - Kitchenacademy.Com:
Innovative culinary training at cooking school in Hollywood or Sacramento California can help you prepare for a new culinary career.
- 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."
- US Culinary Schools Information: Your complete listing of culinary schools, culinary arts schools in United
States
- Le Baccanti: Select Wine & Gourmet Holidays and Events: A respected Italian wine and food tour company.
- Venice Cooking School: The cooking school of Clifford A. Wright and Martha Rose Shulman offering classes in 3 series: Learn to Cook, Recipes for Health, and Mediterranean Cuisine.
- 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.
- stayinahotel.com: This a annoyingly designed site, but it is useful for searching for hotels.
- Smarter Living: Discount Travel, Internet Airfare Specials, Travel Sales and More: I find the site very "busy" with lots of "deals" and so forth, but it's a good site for travelers.
- 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
- www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/: Excellent lecture series by Jules Jannick of Purdue University on the History of Horticulture.
- Purdue University's Consumer Horticulture Home Page:
- UC Vegetable Research and Information Center:
- Agriculture
- www.localharvest.org: a web site with hyper-linked map of the United States with the locations of farmers markets and other local producers of food.
- Ag-Links: Links for the Agriculture Industry
- Openair-Market Net: Farmers' Markets, Street Vendors, Flea Markets and Street Markets
- USDA
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Databases:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, The National Plant Germplasm System:
- 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.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html: Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages, a survey of 117 spices by an Austrian chemistry student. This site is informative, thorough, and reliable.
- 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.
- www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm: Vascular Plant Image Library from Texas A & M University
- www.cgiar.org/irri/: International Rice Research Institute
- BoDD Home Page: Botanical Dermatology Database Index to Plant Families
- Centre for Economic Botany: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Economic Botany
- Flora of Europe: A photographic herbarium
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code) - International Code of Botanical Nomenclature:
- MBG: W3TROPICOS: Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files.
- 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):
- 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
- www.blueocean.org: Guide to ocean-friendly seafood
- www.seafoodchoices.org: Ocean conservation, smart choices for seafood, and restaurants near you serving sustainable seafood
- 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
- www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/cookery/: Michigan State University Libraries Cookery 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:
- The National Agricultural 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
- Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data: Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12354500)
- Nutrition: Arbor Nutrition Guide:
- 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.
