Culinary Arts: WebSites

This general site of the British Broadcasting Corporation provides recipes, chef biographies, consumer food matters, food news and more!

Offers tips on cooking arranged by types of food, beginner cooking techniques, cooking definitions, and more.

This is a commercial website but it features plenty of useful, free content, including demo videos, podcast links, recipe search boxes, a 4,000-word food dictionary, a 3,500-word wine dictionary, and a Metric Conversion chart. Access to chef profiles and restaurant reviews are also provided.

This site provides information on the cooking shows that air on the food network. Users have access to many recipes, cooking demos and instructions, often with accompanying video clips.

An eccentric world of food information: articles, trivia, recipes, food festivals, "Today in Food History", quotes, and more.

This meta-site is sponsored and compiled by StartSpot Network and provides links to dozens of Web resources, including sites for recipes, beverage websites, a guide to television programs on cooking and a list of culinary magazine websites.

U.S. CDC Food Safety website with up-to-date food safety topics and articles. Includes education on how to prevent food borne illnesses, etc.

Lists common food allergies and reactions, FAQs, research, recipes, and more.

Gateway website to government food safety information.

Ask Karen provides information for consumers about preventing foodborne illness, safe food handling and storage, and safe preparation of meat, poultry, and egg products.

The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.

This site, created by Lynne Oliver, a reference librarian from New Jersey, details food and culinary history. Links to historic menus, international cuisine , state foods, digitized cookbooks and more are also available.

This site, from the UCLA Biomedical Library, explores the many facets of spices and herbs, culinary as well as medicinal.

The online version of Wine Enthusiast magazine, with vintage charts, wine and spirits ratings, and archived articles.

The online version of Wine Spectator magazine, with a school tasting guide with free downloads, wine and health reports, and editors’ blogs.

Very comprehensive guide for cocktails, etc.

Basic info plus FAQ

Over 100 recipes