Culinary Arts: Websites

More than ribs this is an overall BBQ how-to site with extensive info on techniques, recipes, equipment and history.

From King Arthur Flour, this portal offers a huge selection of items for bakers from tools to ingredients to recipes. Sign up for their helpful newsletter.

Want to know who is the pastry chef at the French Laundry? ChefDB is an ongoing project aimed at documenting and promoting the work history of chefs and food & hospitality professionals around the world.

A food lover's link to professional chefs. Several chef forums, cookbook and cookware reviews, photos and articles

Recipes, restaurants, news, instruction, videos, discussions and entertainment.

An encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools, include pictures, synonyms, and suggested substitutions. Useful when a recipe calls for basil and you don't have any or if you want to know if you can use a different fish when a recipe calls for snapper.

Everything about managing Diabetes including what you can eat. With obesity on the rise, this might be useful for chefs.

Where famous foodies hang out.

A web site for everything cooking related. Look for daily link to something interesting, chef's calculator, discussion forum, articles, recipes, and an interactive recipe exchange.

Recipes, articles, community, videos, food news, dictionary, iphone apps and podcasts

This website is about the origins of foods, food issues, food advertising, and foods in other countries.

Listing of upcoming culinary events as well as a "Today In Food History" section.

Food Safety
Food safety information from federal government websites, including recalls and alerts.

Food news.

The time line is two columns entitled "Beginnings" and "Recipes" beginning in 17,000 BC. The introductory section gives the author's recommendations for researching a culinary topic. There is also "Have a Question?" where more than 20,000 questions have been answered.

Detailed descriptions of over 50 different fruits, including origin, adaptation, and characteristics of cultivars

From a university food science site

Food industry news, analysis and research.

Lior Lev Sercarz's spice blends that are used by some of the world's best chefs

Cooking videos, recipes, blogs from PBS stations

Authoritative wine site

"... global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us."

Consumer website developed by National Co+op Grocers (NCG) for their "virtual chain" of 145 retail food co-ops. Has recipes and articles on food and on healthy eating.

Texas Monthly magazine BBQ site.

Covers thousands of wineries and their release dates.

Comprehensive wine web site with information for the novice to expert. Read news, articles, search the winery database, find the right wine for a meal with the interactive food and wine matching guide and browse menus.