Recommended Sites:  Cooking

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Search the Culinary Arts collection, one of BPL's subscription databases. It includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines and thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

General Cooking Sites

• Back of the Box
  Most of these recipes come directly from food packaging; a few are reader-suggested recipes using brand-name products.
• Cheese
  Comprehensive site for news and information on over six hundred types of cheese.
• Epicurious
  Recipes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet magazine and other well known magazines and cookbooks.
• Fine Cooking
  Kitchen-tested recipes, videos, healthy meals, party menus and cooking techniques from top cooks and the Fine Cooking Magazine test kitchen.
• Food and Recipes - refdesk.com
  An A-Z listing of cooking sites with many links.
• Food & Wine Magazine
  From the magazine of the same name, search for recipes, videos, guides to cooking, chefs, drinks and entertaining.
• Food Network (U.S.)
  Recipes, articles from the many food experts aired on the TV channel.
• FoodieView
  A recipe search engine that allows you to explore several sites at once. Also browse recipes by category, including international cuisine.
• Gourmandia
  For experienced cooks, these viderecipes are from Michelin starred chefs. Each recipe has a corresponding step by step video. It even has napkin folding videos, searchability of recipes by country and by chef. Site is available in French, German and Spanish.
• Homecanning.com
  Information on canning, with tips, links, recipes and access to back issues of the magazine.
• iChef
  An electronic magazine which features columns on cooking, a recipe archive, tips and hints.
• KraftCanada.com
  Great recipes and food Ideas including a meal-planner, “what’s cooking” magazine archive, recipes by e-mail, and your own on-site recipe box.
• LoveToKnow Recipes
  Thousands of classic and original recipes, cooking tips and everything else you would love to know about food.
• Meaning of Food
  Companion site to this documentary series that explores our relationships to food and reveals the connection food has to our identity.
• MyRecipes.com
  Features recipes from Cooking Light, Southern Living, Sunset, Coastal Living, All You, Real Simple, and Health.
• Nibbledish
  Over 2000 creative commons licensed recipes with photos.
• Olive Tree World
  Information about olives and olive oil. It includes history, tasting, recipes and more.
• Recipe Goldmine
  Recipes for baby food, camping, nutella, tofu and more.
• Recipe Link
  Excellent site with recipes, a recipe swap, cookbook information and cooking links. Post to message boards on numerous cooking topics.
• Recipe Zaar
  Search over 352, 000 recipes by course, ingredient, cuisine, diet or preparation.
• Reader's Digest Food & Recipes
  Get easy and healthy recipe ideas for family dinners, parties, holidays, and more
• Sally’s Place
  A site for food, beverage and travel enthusiasts.
• Taste of Home
  This is from the magazine and includes Reader's Digest recipes, as well as videos, a blog, healthy cooking and a recipe search feature.
• Top Secret Recipes
  This site features many favourite recipes from renowned restaurants.
• Videojug - Food and Drink
  Follow a recipe through video, step by step.

Canadian Cooking Sites

• The Art of Living Well
  Renowned Canadian cookbook author and accomplished chef, Rose Reisman helps you perfect the art of living well.
• The Best of Bridge
  From the creators of this timeless set of cookbooks, find recipes or complete your set of their cookbooks.
• Canadian House & Home Food
  Recipes from the Canadian House & Home magazine.
• Canadian Living Food
  Recipes from Canadian Living Magazine.
• Chatelaine Food & Recipes
  Search for a recipe by ingredients or create your own recipe file or participate in talk forums.
• Food Network Canada
  Search by recipe name, cooking show or favourite chef on Food Network's Web site.
• Foodland Ontario
  This site includes recipes, an availability chart on seasonal produce, food facts and links to producer associations, farmer’s markets and pick your own.
• Health Canada - Food and Nutrition
  Includes information on food labelling, Canada's Food Guide, food safety and recalls, nutrition and healthy eating tips.
• LCBO Food & Drink
  Search the database of recipes from this popular magazine. Learn tprepare a variety of culinary dishes from the experts. Check out the videpodcasts sections for information on beverages.
• Lucy Waverman's Recipes
  One of Canada's favourite culinary personalities, Lucy Waverman brings her sharp wit and mouth-watering recipes to aspiring home chefs across the country as celebrated author, editor, columnist and teacher.
• Quaker Oats: Cooking and Recipes
  Features a Recipe Finder, and Kids in the Kitchen section.
• The Globe and Mail Food & Wine
  Articles, recipes, and reviews on the latest in food and wine.
• The Spec Recipe Search
  Search recipes from The Spectator's Food & Entertaining section.

International Cooking

• African Cookbook
  Includes menus and recipes from Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, and the Island of Zanzibar.
• Asian Food Recipes
  In addition to hundreds of recipes from twenty-four Asian nations, this site offers information on cooking ingredients, equipment, substitutions, methods, religious food practices, and culinary history.
• BBC Food
  Recipes from BBC cooking shows.
• Dim Sum
  A brief introduction to this Chinese form of small plate meals, usually served in restaurants.
• European Cuisines
  A collection of recipes and links to food sites, organized by country.
• Global Gourmet
  This e-zine features international recipes and more. Scroll down to find recipe search or search by destination
• Greek-Recipe.com
  Collection of recipes for Greek dishes.
• World Hearth Circle of International Cooking
  International recipe site where you can search for ethnic and international cuisine by country.

Specialized Cooking Sites

Healthy/Heart Smart/Low Fat

• Cooking Light
  Cooking Light is a long-established health, nutrition, and fitness authority that inspires readers to eat smart, be fit, and live well. For the home cook, each recipe is tested by the staff of Test Kitchens professionals and registered dieticians.
• EatingWell
  Recipes from Eating Well magazine.
• Heart-Healthy Recipes
  Recipes from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
• Healthy Living
  Recipes include those from the Looney Spoons series, Dieticians of Canada, Foodland Ontario, Diary and Egg Farmers of Canada, and Ontario White Bean Growers. Compiled by the Healthy Living Partnership Middlesex-London.
• Leslie Beck - Recipes
  Nutritionist and author, Leslie Beck, offers up some healthy recipes.
• Martha-Rose-Shulman.com
  She has been writing cookbooks for 20 years that are devoted to eating well, and cooking light. Find recipes and articles.
• Recipes @ Whole Foods Market
  From the Whole Foods grocery chain. Searchable by dish type, conveniences, main ingredient, special diet or keyword.

Allergy Free

• Avoiding Corn in Canada
  A convenient source and summary of information about corn-derived products for the use of people with known or suspected corn sensitivity, and for health care professionals.
• Best gluten-free recipes and advice on coeliac disease
  Link to sites on gluten-free recipes and cooking for sufferers of celiac disease.
• Eating With Food Allergies
  Lists major food allergies with recipes, meal planning tips and recommendations when eating on the road.
• Living Without - Gluten-Free Recipes
  From the magazine for people with allergies and food sensitivities.

Diabetic

• Canadian Diabetes Association - Nutrition
  This site includes recipes, portion size, meal planning, eating out and more.
• DaVita Recipes
  Collection of recipes suitable for diets of those suffering from chronic kidney disease and diabetes, and those undergoing kidney dialysis.
• Diabetic Gourmet Magazine
  This e-zine provides nutritional information, articles and recipes for diabetics.
• RecipeSource: Diabetic Recipes
  A wide range of recipes for those on specialized diets.

Vegetarian

• Fatfree: the Low Fat Vegetarian Recipe Archive
  Current and archived recipes, and links.
• In a Vegetarian Kitchen with Nava Atlas
  From the cookbook author, this site contains vegetarian and vegan recipes, information for vegetarians, kids, teens and healthy cooking tips.
• Mollie Katzen Online
  This vegetarian author of the Moosehead cookbooks offers up some tasty recipes.
• Vegetarian: All Recipes
  Search for recipes organized by category, or ingredients.
• Vegetarian Times
  A comprehensive site from the magazine with numerous articles on nutrition and health. Use Recipe Search to find recipes according to various dietary requirements.
• VegWeb: Vegan Recipes by Category
  Search for individual recipes or use the index and browse by category.

Kosher

• Kosher Cooking
  Recipes including everyday and holiday cooking. Includes links to other recipe sites.
• Jewish Recipes
  includes Jewish and Kosher recipes from around the world.

Specialized Diets

• Raw Food Diet Recipe Index
  Here you'll find the raw food diet recipe index of all recipes included on this site as well as other raw food menu suggestions.
• Weight Watchers Food & Recipes
  Hundreds of Weight Watchers recipes for those following the diet or looking to eat well. Find recipes and food information quickly by a keyword index.

Nutrition & Cooking Helpers

• Calorie Counter
  From Chatelaine magazine, the eight key components in more than 425 foods in this downloadable Adobe Acrobat guide.
• Nutrient Data Search
  143 nutrients in over 5500 foods from Health Canada’s online Canadian Nutrient File.
• Cook's Thesaurus
  A cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Find substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients.
• International Food Information Council (IFIC)
  A useful site for information on nutrition. Look under Food Safety and Nutrition Information for information on food safety, food allergies, pesticides and their interaction with food.
• NutritionData
  A large food database that includes information on fast foods and food additives, and provides many useful tools for analyzing your diet.
• Recipe Analyzer
  Use this tool to find out the nutrients in your favourite recipes, and see how many Food Guide Servings your recipe provides. Note: You must "register" if you want to create a recipe binder and save your recipes. From Dietitians of Canada.

Cooking For & With Kids

• Amazing Moms - Cooking With Kids - Children's Recipes
  Recipes that kids can make (and will enjoy eating), as well as helpful advice and tips for moms coping with kids in the kitchen.
• Cooking With Kids
  Simple to make recipes for kids. Also allows kids to email in their favourite recipe and have their name posted on the website.
• Easy Kids Recipes
  Quick and easy kid-appealing recipes.
• Exploratorium - Science of Cooking
  Explore recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking.
• Feeding Your Family: Recipe and Article Archive
  From Parenthood.com, articles on nutrition and food and recipes.
• KidsHealth - Recipes
  Collection of recipes for healthy foods children can prepare.
• KidsKuisine
  Fantastic website for kids who like to cook (with the help of an adult). The realistic pictures that accompany the recipes are great for kids to get an idea of what the outcome will look like.
• Nick Jr. com - Recipes
  Recipes featuring Nick Jr. characters like Dora, Backyardiagans, Max and Ruby and more.
• That's My Home - Cooking With Kids Recipes
  Fun and easy recipes that kids can help make.

Baking

• Bread World
  This site from Fleischmann's Yeast has recipes for both bread makers and traditional baking methods. Also provides product information and tips on baking.
• Cooks.com - Desserts
  Pastries, puddings, pies, shortcakes and more.
• David Lebovitz - Living the Sweet Life in Paris - Recipes
  David is a world renowned pastry chef and cookbook author.
• Godiva Chocolatier - Recipes
  For deserts, bread, drinks and more
• Joy of Baking
  This site contains baking history, recipes and holiday baking ideas.

Crock Pot

• A Crock Cook
  Everything you ever wanted to know about crock pots and cooking. Recipes, articles and advice, and a crock pot blog.
• CrockPot Cooking
  Recipes listed by subject and alphabetically, as well as information on the basics of slow cooker cooking.
• Easy Crockpot Recipes
  Crockpot recipes arranged by the type of dish.
• Family Crock Pot Recipes
  This site offers lots of crockpot recipes, organized by the type of dish, as well as articles and information on cooking with a crockpot and meal planning.
• Just Slow Cooking
  6156 crockpot recipes in 57 categories.
• My Crockpot Recipes
  Index to over 900 crockpot recipes, ranging from easy to make to gourmet.
• Yummy Crock Pot Recipes
  Crockpot recipes, suggestions on types of crockpots to buy, as well as a place to submit your recipe to the site.

Barbecuing

• Barbecue'n on the Internet
  This site features recipes, spices for the grill and barbecuing techniques
• Cedar Grilling Recipes
  Recipes to grill with cedar planks.
• Fiesta Barbecues - Recipes
  Barbecue recipes including salads, appetizers and desserts.
• Weber Recipes
  Barbecue recipes, not only for meat, but many ideas for appetizers and desserts.

Beverages

• 2 Be A Snob
  Information on coffee, tea, wine and beer.

Wine

• Canada's Wines
  From the Canadian Vintners Association, outlines wine growing regions, grape varieties and links.
• Wine Spectator
  The online magazine includes blogs, videos, learn about wine and more.
• Wineries of Ontario
  Includes the Wine route online, wine regions, winemakers-wineries and a wine-food matching tool.

Beer

• The Beer Store
  Includes sections on beer 101, hosting parties and recipes.
• Beercook
  Includes recipes on cooking and grilling with beer. Scroll down tthe bottom of the page for a recipe search box.

Other Beverages (Coffee, Tea, Mixed Drinks)

• Bigelow Tea - Entertaining & Recipes
  Includes recipes, a tea dictionary and entertaining ideas including bridal teas, tea parties and formal teas.
• Cocktail Times
  100’s of recipes for the home bartender.
• Coffee Fair
  A fun site about everything coffee, includes facts, history, videos and of course, coffee recipes.
• Search LCBO's Food & Drink Magazine.
  • Mixed Drinks
  • Mocktails
• World of Tea
  From the tea makers, Stasha, it includes tea history, recipes and videos.
  

Maintained by Cecilia Vespa
Updated January 2010

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