Food and Drink ////////////// Various food info and food services on the Internet Note: some sites are of a commercial nature but offer services and info which I deemed worthwhile, unique and time saving and so they are included here. ps. I still can't seem to find a good site that specializes in Italian cuisine or recipes. *** Email me if you find one... please. *** gopher to: ashpool.micro.umn.edu look in /fun/Recipes contains hundreds of recipes and a search tool gopher to: spinaltap.micro.umn.edu look in /fun/Recipes alternative site to the one above (ashpool) gopher to: gdim.geod.emr.ca look in /Vegetarian Info/Recipes gopher to: gopher.ent.iastate.edu look in /Tasty Insect Recipes this might get your dinner crowd away quickly ftp to: ftp.ee.rochester.edu look in /pub/recipes contains dozens of recipes (especially desserts) ftp to: gatekeeper.dec.com Archive of recipes from various Usenet newsgroups devoted to cooking. ftp to: ils.nwu.edu look in /pub/sourdough Yummy sourdough bread recipes. Food and Drink WWW URLs: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Amy.Gale/other-sites.html contains Amy Gale's List of Food and Cooking sites. Chocolate Lover's Page http://www.ios.com/~shag/chocolate.html Tons of info and sweet links and pointers - don't lick the monitor! Godiva Home Page http://www.godiva.com Recipes, chocolate history and trivia and other sweet topics make this page a winner. Also includes pictures and ordering forms for Godiva Chocolates. If you enjoy chocolate - GET HERE! It is a GREAT web page. HOT page http://www.presence.com/hot For lover's of all things hot. Tabasco, hot sauce, hot peppers, etc. Gets me thirsty just thinking about it. FUN Recipes web page http://www.cr.usgs.gov:80/usgs/FUN/Recipes another web based cooking compilation from the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Division. Surprisingly good page. Yum! Delicious. La Petit Chef page http://crayymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu:80/PetitChef contains mucho info and FAQs and links to other resources. ZIMA Web page http://zima.com/ Pizza Hut web page http://www.pizzahut.com/ Barbara Jean's Famous Candies http://www.wwa.com/~bjcandy Five Star Cookies http://virtumall.com:80/LateNightCookies/FiveStar.html Take the Cake (Cake delivery service) http://www/iis.com/cakes Java Byte Product Directory http://computek.net/jb/product.html Specialty Foods (S. Wainer and Son) http://www.ag.com/specialty/foods Cauplin Coffee http://emall.com/Ashcreek/AshCreek1.html Republic of Tea http://emall.com/Republic/Tea.html Lobster Direct Home Page http://dorian.csi.nb.ca/~damber/lobster Kosher Express Matzah Market http://www.marketnet.com:80/mktnet/kosher Kosher Restaurant Database http://shamash.nysernet.org/kosher/krestquery.html Spice Merchant http://emall.com/Spice/Spice1.html =========================================================================== Sam's Wine Warehouse http://www.ravenna.com/sams Should I have the red or white? From the pedestrian to the very best wines. Check out the various (and plentiful) links to other wine and spirits pages --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virtual Vineyards http://www.virtualvin.com Peter Granoff has made a wonderful page on wines from around the world. All sorts of wines and wine related topics are included here as well as links to other wine and wine-making pages. You'll really understand wine complexities and terms after this informative resource page. Well done! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wines on the Internet http://www.wines.com/wines.html A self-descibed "cyberspace guide to wines and wineries". Includes virtual winery tours, wine info and many links to other wine and wine-related web pages. One of the best wine pages on the Internet. Excellent! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beers 2 You http://www.interaccess.com/users/intelli/users/Beers_2_You/b2u-home.html A trip across America to visit many micro-breweries. Links to "The Beer Street Journal" newsletter amd a calendar of beer events will quench even the most parched traveller. Pour yourself a cold one before travelling - unless you feel you'll get inebriated behind the keyboard wheel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Virtual Pub http://lager.geo.brown.edu:8080/virtual-pub/index.html Pull up a chair... err... stool and quaff a few virtual mugs and a pint or two of the ale. Lots of beer and beer related info. Includes a "virtual" taste testing that are interactive in nature. Chat with other beer lovers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Beer Page http://guraldi.itn.med.umich.edu/Beer Links to all sorts of beer resorces and contains nutritional info on beer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cafephreak http://www.echonyc.com/~cafephrk/cafe.html A hip cafe that is cool and crass. Offers many links to assorted cafes and other coffee and coffee related sites. And while your sipping mocha java you can link over to find something refreshingly uptown hip to read. Then there is Cafephreak, your hostess, that always has something crassly cool to say. This is truly a unique little cafe site on the web and maybe will become your cafe sight of choice. Very cool and enjoyable place. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coffee URL http://www.infonet.net/showcase/coffee A complete coffee FAQ and then some. For the Java afficianados everywhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Solon http://www.csulb.edu:80/~solon/ Is it an art exhibit or a cafe? Well... it's a little of both. Solon is your host as you enter into "Coffee Talk" and then find tons of links to coffee related pages. You'll find an exhaustive listing of coffeehouses, cafes, coffee recipes, coffee related links and even coffee related sounds! You can also choose to head into Solon's digital "Art Gallery" and see some of the work that is exhibited there. I liked the Coffee Talk section much better than the Art Gallery but you be the judge... In any case the Coffee section and its links are worth the trip alone. Cream and sugar? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FAQ on Coffee and Caffeinated substances http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/caffaq.html This FAQ is dedicated to all beverages and products that contain caffeine including tea, coffee, chocolate, mate, caffeinated soft drinks, caffeinated pills, coffee beans, etc. There are several newsgroups in which this topic may be of relevance, including but not limited to alt.drugs.caffeine, rec.food.drink.coffee, rec.food.drink.tea and alt.food.chocolate. Usenet newsgroups info sources: Rec.food.drink.coffee is preferred over alt.coffee and alt.food.coffee. 1. The Chemistry of Caffeine and related products 1. How much caffeine is there in [drink/food/pill]? 2. How much caffeine there is in blend X? 3. Chemically speaking, what is caffeine? 4. Is it true that tea has no caffeine/What is theine, theobromine, etc? 5. Where can I find a gif of the caffeine molecule? 6. Is it true that espresso has less caffeine than regular coffee? 7. How does caffeine taste? 8. How much theobromine/theophylline there is in ...? 2. How to brew the ultimate caffeine drink? 1. What is the best temperature for drip coffee? 2. Quality of coffee 3. Why you should never use percolators 3. Peripherals and Secondary Storage 1. Proper care of Coffee makers... 2. How to store coffee? 3. Equipment reviews? 4. Caffeine and your Health 1. What happens when you overdose? 2. Studies on the side-effects of caffeine... 3. Caffeine and your metabolism. 5. Miscellaneous 1. How do you pronounce mate? 2. How do you spell Colombia/Colombian? 3. How do you spell Espresso? 6. Coffee Recipes and other beverages. 1. Espresso 2. Chocolate covered espresso beans 3. Cappuccino 4. Frappe 5. How to make your own chocolate 6. How to make the best cup of coffee 7. Turkish Coffee 8. Thai Iced Coffee 9. Vietnamese Iced Coffee 10. Melya 7. Administrivia 1. List of Contributors 2. Copyright --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fat-Free Recipe Archive ftp to: ftp.geod.emr.ca located in --> /pub/Vegetarian/Recipes/FatFree Thiry-four categories from Burritos to Oatmeal to Zucchini Bread. Full menus of Breakfasts, Lunch ideas and Dinner. Not just for celery sticks! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Old-Fashioned Recipes ftp to: gatekeeper.dec.com located in --> /pub/recipes An old Usenet archive of recipes - none more recent than 1988. But who said that good food and nostalgic recipes go out of style. A nutritional nightmare for some but for those whose thoughts go to cheesecakes and chocolate cream pies and stuffed porkchops... well... need I say more? Grandma would be proud of this collection. Good old fashioned "real" food. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strawberry Facts Page http://www.wimsey.com/~jmott/sbfacts All sorts of strawberry info here - from how to grow 'em to how best to eat 'em. Tips on growing and cultivation and lots of recipes will keep strawberry lovers busy for a while. A neat page stocked with yummy info! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jellophile http://sundry.hsc.usc.edu/hazel/www/jello.html ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ha/hazel/www/jello.html FTP to: ftp.netcom.com in the --> /pub/ha/hazel/jello Well don't say you can't get to this site. This is a unique site in that it offers (mostly) alcoholic jello recipes. What better way to drink than to eat jello (?) Actually lots of these recipes seem pretty tasty and I bet the college folks who dreamed this page up had more on their minds than final exams or reports. Of course maybe this *was* a research report! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fishing For Recipes Gopher to: thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/11/databases/AquaNIC/publicat/recipe More than 60 tantalizing recipes including a huge collection of Catfish recipes. Mostly freshwater fish recipes but a few others as well. From trout to salmon the recipes are assorted in four cooking methods. Baked, Grilled, Smoked and Steamed (a few fried ones are in with baked) and are collected by the Univ of Wisconsin in accordance with their Sea Grant Advisory Services Program. Pass the tartar sauce please! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sushi page (Rolling your own Sushi) http://www.rain/org/~hutch/sushi.html This page serves up a list of sushi terms and details the procedures for proper presentation and rolling tecniques. Includes best fish for sushi and recipes for sushi rice, sushi omelettes. A good general overview but the utter novice may feel left out a bit. An ample bibliography will help those interested obtain lots more info on the sushi subject. Pass the saki. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web List of Food and Cooking Sites http://www.vuw.ac.nz/non-local/recipes-archive/other-sites.html A huge list of Internet sites and resources that are food and cooking related. Click and browse to your heart's content - lots of places to visit and find info from. You'll enjoy this site tremendously. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Recipes http://155.187.10.12/oz/faq-recipes A list of Australian recipes and various Aussie cuisine info. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Chocolate Page http://www.qrc.com/~sholubek/choco/start.html I need my chocolate! The author actually lived near Hershey, PA (US) and could smell the processed cocoa ever single day until something may have cracked inside her for she has given herself over completely to chocolate. Links and more links to chocolate lover's stuff. Recipes, chocolate ritual and a chocolate bar! Chocolate Lover's - This is heaven on the Web! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kirk McKusick's Wine cellar telnet to: chez.cs.berkeley.edu 451 Another fun and offbeat place to surf to show the current temperature of Kirk's wine cellar and suggestions for the "wine of the day". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bartender's Guide http://www.mcs.com/~doc/guide.html How do you make a Mint Julip? Or how about Sex-on-the-beach (a potent but sandy colored concoction) or how about...? You get the idea - now have fun. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boat Drinks http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/~toby-g/boat.html A collection of tropical and not-so-tropical drinks that will have you reaching for the blender and kicking off your shoes. From the basic Purple Passion to the more complex Tampico Trauma and Cuba Libre and then on to the Perfect Margarita you'll almost hear the distant island breezes and smell the salty ocean air in the background. Of course don't try all these drink recipes at once or you'll be hearing more than ocean breezes... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Food Resource http://www.orst.edu/food-resource/food.html A self-described "attempt to link as much food related information as is possible". They certainly are on the right path. Tons of links to every imaginable food resource there could be plus fantastic images of all sorts of foods will keep you at this site long after your last meal. A unique site because of its huge image list of pictures of food and produce. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chile-Heads Home Page http://chile.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu:8000/www/chile.html Included here is the "Chile-Heads" mailing list, a chile pepper archive, tips on growing, harvesting, preserving and drying chiles and hot peppers (cayennes, jalapenos,serranos and more) and also a section on the science aspect of spiciness. Capsaicinoids are the culprits of spiciness and much information is on this subject. There are also a few recipes and the fantastic "Chile Gallery" where pictures and photos reside of almost every type of hot pepper known to man including what they look like unripe and ripe, ready for picking. If you like chiles then surf on over here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creole and Cajun Recipe Page http://www.webcom.com/~gumbo/recipe-page.html A very well done site. It's both informative and fun. The web page is full of interesting facts about Creole and Cajun cooking and plenty of recipes to try out. It is a great page for beginners for it explains all of the ingredients and what they are. You can tell that the author of this web page is both knowledgable and passionate about this cuisine and you will be too after visiting this most exquisite web site. Well worth the trip! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healthy Recipes http://heath.net/Virtual A good selection of recipes that seem easy enough to make with ingredients that you'll find on most any grocery store shelf. However, when I read the recipes and then imagined what they would actually taste like, I was taken back a bit. Perhaps these recipes will make dishes that will look and taste good but perhaps not. If there is anyone out there that has actually tried the recipes and made something from this site - let me know how it fares. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet Restaurant Guide http://super.hwy.com/RestaurantGuide.html You can search for all sorts of restaurants and places to eat by typing in the name of your town (or whatever town you'll be eating in) and you'll be presented a list of eateries that include an address and phone number and as this database progresses - a menu list of what each place offers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meal Master Home Page http://www.primenet.com/~wilson/mm/mealmast.html An electronic trading postof recipes from around the world. Recipe samples are here but the real cachet is being able to share recipes with others. Meal Master is also software that is used to present and store recipes and once you start sharing - you're hooked! The Meal-Master recipe format is ideal for folks who have grown beyond clipping recipes and are now ready to trade on a global scale. Try this out if you like sharing recipes! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Auntie Boo's Kitchen http://www.sar.usf.edu/~zazuetaa/kitchen.html This is just like a favorite Aunt's kitchen and is a virtual tour of not only her kitchen but of all sorts of related food resources. Lots of links to other food places on the 'net. The recipes here are guaranteed foolproof and they are tasty indeed! Give this down-home little site a try - you'll like it! I know of folks that have tried the recipes and enjoyed each one. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Kitchens of Gordon Bleu http://www.aus.xanadu.com/GlassWings/food.html Not everyone will enjoy the Aussie's food fare or food tastes but here is a culinary page from the "Land down under" that might pique your interest. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Various Nutrition and Food related Internet resources ftp to: gatekeeper.dec.com in the --> /pub/recipes ftp to: mthvax.cs.miami.edu in the --> /pub/recipes ftp to: ftp.neosoft.com in the --> /pub/rec.food.recipes ftp to: cs.ubc.ca in the --> /pub.local.recipes telnet to: astro.temple.edu 12345 telnet to: 129.32.1.100 telnet to: argo.temple.edu 12345 telnet to: 129.32.32.102 telnet to: rusinfo.rus.uni-stutgart.de telnet to: 129.69.1.12 By no means a definitive least or a listing of archives that have vast amounts of nutrition and/or food information - but these sites are worth poking around and finding a file or two. Temple University's site is well worth the trip. I recommend "rooting" around all these sites for info and recipes not to be found elsewhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Custard List http://www.execpc.com/~custard A group of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (US) frozen custard vendors decided to get together and write a web page that features all the different flavors that are available each month to the public at their custard stands. Seems that folks in Milwaukee take their custard seriously and now can view from their homes with a web browser all the different flavors that the various custard stands will be offering for the month. OK - I could have put this site in the business section of BIGSURF - but it *is* food related and kinda cool! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blue Directory http://www.2way.com/food/pvo/bluedir.html Lots of links to all sorts of food and food related sites. This is a very good selection of links that is varied in tastes (had to pun) and makes this site an interesting place to surf to. Even has links to beverage info. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seafood Recipes FTP to: mthvax.cs.miami.edu in the --> /pub/recipes ftp://mthvax.cs.miami.edu:/pub/recipes Lots of seafood recipes here. Baked, fried, steamed, broiled and all seem might delicious. If you need a seafod recipe, or love seafood - surf here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Pizza http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu OK - this is not exactly what I meant by "Italian food" but I guess this is as close as you can get without actually getting the real thing. What the heck am I talking about? Check this out - you go to this web site and pick the type of pizza you want, toppings, the works, and then within 30 minutes your pizza is delivered to you by email. What? Hey - no joke! Of course you can't eat your email but the pizza looks kind of nice... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- eGG (Electronic Gourmet Guide) http://www.deltanet.com/2way/egg/ An electronic cooking magazine that features news, articles, reviews of kitchen and cooking products/services, recipes and more! Also has tips, classifieds and cookbook reviews. Lots of links and places to visit too! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------