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Posts tagged “Website for Cooks”

Reader Survey: Social Networking Sites for Foodies?

You've heard of Facebook and LinkedIn, but what about BakeSpace, GroupRecipes, and Open Source Food? Invitations to social networking sites geared toward cooks and food lovers appear in our in-box al...

Web Resource: Vintage Cookbook

Have you ever wanted to find a cookbook from your grandmother's or great-grandmother's generation? Or maybe a cookbook that's out of print, from a restaurant long gone, or from a cultural generation ...

iPhone Apps for the Home Cook

Ah, the iPhone. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay and has some useful applications for the home cook. Read on ......

Food Technology: Grocery Shopping From Your Kitchen Counter

Imagine never having to go to the grocery store again, and having all your food and household items delivered to you at the push of a button. This may be possible with Ikan....

Web Resource: Supercook

What a neat idea. Supercook is a recipe search engine that allows you to enter ingredients that you have at home and finds recipes for you that contain the ingredients you have, so you don't have to ...

Weekend Cooking: Creative Meal-Planning from CookThink

Lacking inspiration this weekend? Is everyone in your family begging for something different? Trying to use up the remnants of your CSA before the next box arrives? Whatever our conundrum, CookThin...

Good Web (and Wine) Resource: Nirvino

Like Metacritic, or Rotten Tomatoes - but for wine. That was the first thing we thought when we came across Nirvino. Nirvino takes critics' scorings and review and assembles them for comprehensive cov...

Good Resource: What's in Season in Your State

Here at the Kitchn, we're always talking about what's in season, as we get excited about the new things appearing in our markets and even in our gardens. Some of the seasons for fruits and vegetables ...

Web Resource: La Tienda

A few months ago, we reported that jamón ibérico would be arriving in the US soon. Well, it's finally here, and you can order it online from La Tienda, the online store of all things related to Spa...

Web Resource: iGourmet

We've mentioned before that we love online shopping for gourmet food items. Another of our favorite online resources is iGourmet, who we really like for cheese purchases....

Cook's Resource: Jessica's Biscuit

We've already told you about our addiction to cookbooks. If you share our predilection, we're about to introduce you to a very dangerous drug. Jessica's Biscuit is an online store offering over 14,000...

Web Resource: D'Artagnan

We have a nice collection of cookbooks from top gourmet chefs, and every so often, we enjoy treating ourselves (and others!) to an unique gastronomy experience. However, many of these cookbooks conta...

The Hungry Reader: The Devil's Food Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical work by Ambrose Bierce, written between 1881 and 1906, and also going under the name The Cynic's Word Book. It lampoons common human failings, politicians, religi...

Weekend Inspiration: Early American Cookery

If you've been thumbing through your cookbooks with a sigh of boredom, help is on the way! The folks over at Feeding America and the Internet Archive have been hard at work scanning hundreds of early ...

Cook's Resource: Simply in Season Produce Guide

We've blogged about how much we appreciate the More-with-Less cookbooks, a staple of our crunchy granola childhood and a newly rediscovered favorite. We appreciate that their approach comes from more ...

Good Beef: How to Find Local Meat

We were sobered by last weekend's massive beef recall and strengthened in our resolve to be very careful where we buy our meat. We are cooking a big beef curry this weekend for some friends and we are...

Sweet Maria's Home Coffee Roasting Supplies: Online

In the world of intense coffee passion and - dare we say it - geekery, Sweet Maria's looms large. If you have ever even considered roasting coffee yourself, then you've almost certainly checked out ...

Chocolate Fun and Games: Chocolatier and Chocolatier 2

When we heard that there was a computer game - two, actually! - designed around the labyrinthine story of chocolate and getting it from the jungle to the confectioners' shop, we were intrigued. We'r...

Good Website: Real Thai Recipes

We crave Thai food this time of year, and we're always looking for more resources on cooking authentically spicy and delicious Thai. We found Real Thai Recipes this week, and we've been voraciously...

Tastebook from Epicurious

A playlist for your favorite recipes. That's how we're thinking of Tastebook, the cookbook-creator from Epicurious. Our site that covers technology in the home, Unplggd, recently mentioned Tastebook...

Reader Tip: Register Your Spices

Holiday baking leads many of us to reach for spices that have spent most of the year far, far away in the dark corners of the cupboard. Others of us are stocking up on spices that we don't normally us...

Hot or Not? The New Epicurious

Epicurious 2.0. Epicurious, the very popular food site and home of Gourmet and Bon Appetit, launched a redesign of its website on Monday. We use Epicurious a lot; we like having the entire Gourmet r...

Good Website: Dorie Greenspan's Weblog

Dorie Greenspan's book Baking: From My Home to Yours was one of our favorite baking books this past winter. She brings a great blend of comfort home cooking and French sophistication to her desserts, ...

Medieval Recipes Translated For Modern Cooks

A snowbound reader was looking for a recipe that might cook up all the random ingredients she had in her fridge, and somehow stumbled across a site with recipes from medieval times adapted for modern ...