Cooking

General Recipes
Specialty Recipes
Kitchen Reference
Canning and Preserving
Nutrition

General Recipes

All Recipes
Over 20,000 member-created recipes, rated and reviewed. Bookmark your favorites, get advice on cooking and entertaining, and request hard-to-find recipes. Some functions require free registration.

Cooking.com
Recipes from books and magazines, along with original creations created exclusively for the website. Browse by course, cuisine, main ingredient, cooking method, or search by keyword. Advanced search options includes seasonal/holiday, nutritional needs, and more. Also has a handy glossary.

Epicurious
Extensive browse and search options. Features more than 17,000 recipes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and SELF magazines, plus an additional 1,300 drink recipes and full menu planning.

Food Network
Look up recipes from every show on the Food Network, or try out the power search. Features recipes from Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray, Jamie Oliver, Martha Stewart, and many more.

Meals.com
Over 8,000 original recipes including complete nutritional information, dietary exchange tables, glossary, and kitchen tips.

Meals For You
More than 10,000 recipes, featuring advanced recipe search to limit by special dietary needs and nutritional content.

Recipezaar
Nearly 100,000 recipes including nutrition facts. Free registration required to submit your own recipes.

Star Chefs
Recipes from authors and top chefs in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and elsewhere. Features articles and information on culinary school, careers, and wine.

Specialty Recipes

Diabetic-Recipes.com
Edited by Frances Towner Giedt and Bonnie Sanders Polin, authors of the Joslin Diabetes Cookbook series.

In a Vegetarian Kitchen
Featuring seasonal, holiday, and kid-friendly recipes; nutrition guide, cooking tips, and links.

Kate's Vegan Cookery Site
Searchable recipe archive organized by ingredient, course, and cuisine. Includes links and a "cookery diary."

Kosher Express Kitchen
Kosher recipes for holidays and everyday. Features a small selection of professional recipes in addition to many submitted by users.

PastryWiz
Includes professional, educational, and shopping resources in addition to pastry recipes from a variety of sources.

Kitchen Reference

Cooking Conversions Calculator
Convert weights and volumes between metric and U.S. measurements. From GourmetSleuth.com.

Cooking Measurement Equivalents
With conversion calculator, from Infoplease.

Cook's Thesaurus
Suggests substitutions for over 1,500 cooking ingredients. Searchable and categorized.

The Food Timeline
Find out what people ate from prehistoric times to the present. Maintained by the Morris County Library in New Jersey.

Food Insight
A helpful guide to food safety and nutrition from the International Food Information Council.

Setting The Table
Suggestions and visual examples of several different table settings. Includes links to further kitchen and household tips.

The Vegetarian Resource Group
Links to nutrition, recipe, ingredient, restaurant and travel information for vegetarians and vegans.

Canning and Preserving

The National Center for Home Food Preservation
Current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation.

Better Homes and Gardens: Preserving and Canning
Basic how-to instructions on the art of canning and tips on jams, jellies, pickles, and relishes.

Virginia Cooperative Extension: Canning and Preserving
Information on canning and preserving, freezing and drying fruits and vegetables, pressure canning, and how to troubleshoot home curing pork.

Minnesota Department of Health: Home Canning
Links to useful resources and information on food safety. Also includes information about the “Pickle Law” for people interested in selling their home canned goods.

University of Minnesota , Food Safety Education & Research: From Farm to Table
Articles and instructions on all thing canning and preserving, along with troubleshooting FAQs, equipment profiles, and handy canning reference charts.

Last updated: April 6, 2010 jc