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Recipes
We have cut through the clutter of the millions of recipes sites on the internet (most of which are just horrible pop-up ad sites) and selected quality recipes sites that you will find very useful. Many offer online videos for their recipes. In addition, please check out our Food411 Blog, where our very own Chef Silvia has added recipes and we also post a few of the Q&A's that are submitted to "Ask Chef Silvia". Wonderful recipes can also be found in our food blog section.
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All Recipes - Cook's reference, encyclopedia, conversions, recipes.
Epicurious - Extensive recipe database, 20,000+ recipes by Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines and cooking videos. The allows us to create your own recipe "box" for future reference.
All Food - Recipes and reference. Ask the chef, tips of the day.
Food TV - Recipes from your favorite TV chefs.
Cookstr - Recipes from the world's most acclaimed chefs and cookbook authors.The site has a powerful search engine, which lets you look for recipes in a wide variety of ways.
BBC Foods - Recipe database from the BBC network.
Tastespotting - Most of us eat with our sight first. With this website you see the images of the food - then you can click through to the recipes. It is actually an ongoing collection of photographed images of recipes submitted from food blogs all over the internet. A great way to discover new food blogs, as well as, discover recipes. Just looking at the photos is inspiring!
Cooking for Engineers - A great recipe site with step by step pictures and instructions - great information.
Foodie View - Crawls numerous recipe sites and indexes themto be searched. Over 100,000 recipes indexed to date! Search can be narrowed by ingredients, famous chefs, or type of cuisine. You can save your recipes in a personal recipe box!
Italian Kitchen - Mario Batali's site: recipes, ask Mario, more.
foodgeeks - Online community for food geeks to share recipes and info about cooking and ingredients. Over 9,000 recipes. What fun !
the italian chef - The Italian Chef, brings classic and new Italian recipe from his Italian family, Chef Paolo Torre. Chef Paolo has over 45 years experience cooking in some of New York\'s finest restaurants, including 20 years with his own establishment. You will also find articles, reviews of Italian restaurants and cookbooks.
Mediterrasian - A wealth of wonderful recipes from the mediterranean and asian diets. The world's oldest health revolution!
Afro Food TV - Dedicated to teaching everyone about African foods and recipes. View easy to follow recipes and learn all about African cuisine.
Crash Test Kitchen - A fun recipe blog that inlcudes a video with each recipe - the video is the real deal - mess ups included! What fun.
Cook with me - Learn how to cook Austrian food, detailed descriptions of free online recipes. Learn about the Austrian cooking and lifestyle with Vienna/Austria Chef Bernhard Baumgartner.
Recipe Site Review - A source for finding recipe websites classified by country of origin and ranked by site quality.
Happy Cookers - Recipes from the CA's Dorothy McNett's TV show.
Recipe Zaar - Real people from all over the world have shared and rated more than 109,000 recipes.
Make Great Cookies - Original recipes and creative ideas for cookie bakers.
Cookies in Motion - Everything about cookies - the science behind making them, recipes, a blog, understanding the ingredient and the effects of them.
America's Test Kitchen - Public TV #1 cooking show website. The show is filmed in the test kitchen of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The website offers all the recipes from the magazine, as well as, the 8 seasons of shows. Great resource.
Cooking Bread - The world of Breadmaking: online classes, recipes, wonderfully tasty bread recipes and online cooking classes.
Cookie Club Recipes - Largest cookie recipe club.
Fresh Herbs - Dedicated to herb recipes and a wealth of info on herbs.
Anna Maria's Open Kitchen - If you like Italian Food this is the site for you! Traditional Italian Recipes Illustrated Step-by-Step A unique site about Italian Cooking where you will find Italian Food recipes for Tiramisu, and Traditional Italian recipes for pizza dough, pasta, lasagna, gnocchi, risotto, polenta, and articles on history of Italian food.
Food Geeks - Food geeks submit their recipes.
Fish 4 Fun - Captain Cook's fish recipes and informational resource.
Corn on the Cob - Website obsessed with Corn on the Cob recipes and cooking tips: fully photographed, step-by-step guides.
Recipe Delights - Indian recipes and glossary.
French Food Cook - French Recipes/cooking tips.
Joy of Baking - Baking resource, recipes.
IMP Online - Home style recipes.
Caterer Search Recipes - Primarily aimed at industry professionals it has a large database of recipes, including some from high profile professional chefs. Search by cuisine, chef and food type.
Cooking.com - Database of recipes, menu planning.
Cooking with Google - Enter a few ingredients, Google finds recipes that fit your ingredients.
Nigella Lawson - Database of Nigella's recipes and reader's recipes.
Fine Cooking - Magazine's database of recipes.
Food and Wine - Magazine's database of recipes.
Family Circle - Magazine's database of 3,000 recipes.
Top Secret Recipes - Recipes to create clones of America's favorite brand-name foods.
Site of the Month
Frog Hollow Farm
133-acre organic farm located in Brentwood, California. They ship their fruit, bakery products, jams, and dried fruits. Yummy!!
Editor’s Pick
Coffee Bean Direct
Fresh roasted coffee & gourmet whole leaf teas all at wholesale prices that are, frankly, hard to believe. We samples several of their beans and a few teas and were shocked how good the quality is! The teas were beautiful whole leaves, fresh bright flavors.
Featured Sites
Keep Your Cooler
Keep Your Cooler offers unique insulated shopping bags, lunch coolers, coolers on wheels and much more!
Chocolate Cravings
chocri
Design your own Chocolate Bar. Start with the type of chocolate and then add any of the 100 add-ins. You can even name the bar! And this is a high quality chocolate bar...very impressed!
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