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May 03, 2006Stay Informed About Wine Events In Your Area
If you're the wine type you might enjoy Local Wine Events http://www.localwineevents.com/, which contains an index to hundreds (thousands?) of wine events around the US and internationally. The front page has two lists of regions -- US states (sometimes cities...
Continue reading "Stay Informed About Wine Events In Your Area" » January 06, 2006Archive of Solar Cooker Plans and Documents
More groovy stuff to cover in 2006 ... if you're interested in solar cooking, both from the perspective of building cookers and of making cookers work, check out the vast archives at http://www.solarcooking.org/. There are several categories of information just...
Continue reading "Archive of Solar Cooker Plans and Documents" » October 18, 2005A Search Engine for Hamburgers
No, I'm not kidding. There's a new search engine for hamburger lovers called BurgerFinder, at http://burgerfinder.com/. Now if I could only find something like this called VeggieBurgerFinder, all would be well. Anyway, this site is very new so don't expect...
September 07, 2005Get the Skinny on All Kinds of Restaurants
It's tags! It's food! It's all kinds of reviews! How could I resist a food review site that uses tags? I like Dinnerbuzz ( http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/ ) though I wish they had more restaurant reviews in my area. From the front...
Continue reading "Get the Skinny on All Kinds of Restaurants" » January 15, 2005Whole Grain Bread Recipe Collections
When the new dietary guidelines were announced, I muttered to myself, "This'll make the press wires go banonkers." And it did. One of the releases relevant to ResearchBuzz was the announcement the of Fleischmann's Yeast Goodfibes site, a collection of...
May 19, 2004Plenty of Places to Eat Jamaican and Caribbean Food
Love Jamaican and Caribbean food? Do I have the Web site for you. Eat Jamaican ( http://eatjamaican.com/ ) features links to Jamaican and Caribbean restaurants all over the world. Pick an area on the front page; I chose the United...
Continue reading "Plenty of Places to Eat Jamaican and Caribbean Food" » August 22, 2003Cook's Thesaurus Provides Food Information
Hungry? Need to work on a recipe? Check out http://foodsubs.com/ . This plain but extensive site offers a lot of information on a lot of different foods. The front page (and indeed the entire site) contains a keyword search ,...
Continue reading "Cook's Thesaurus Provides Food Information" » July 02, 2003Get Your Cheese On
(DISCLAIMER: I was going to start this off with a "Cheese Shop" joke, but I can't spell "bazouki". You'll have to settle for Wallace and Gromit.) "Cheese, Gromit! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!" That place is http://www.cheesenet.info/, CheeseNet, providing...
December 24, 2002What Are Pump Clips, Anyway?
I confess I had no idea what pump clips were until I visited the site at http://www.cix.co.uk/~dalecu/ -- DeeCee's Pump Clips. As DeeCee explains, "Pump clips are badges fitted to beer pump handles to indicate which real ales are available."...
December 18, 2002Menu Image Database
The Los Angeles Public Library has a database of menu images. Yes they do. It's at http://pubindex.lapl.org/pages/ele_nei/menus-elenei.htm . On this page you can search by keyword, restaurant, cuisine, and date. Searching for 18** under date brought a list of results...
October 21, 2002Cooking With Recipe Sketches
If you're like me and I know I am, you don't have the patience to go through recipes. You might want to take a quick idea and come up with your own creation. Check out A MUSE for Cooks at...
August 26, 2002Beer Festivals
I don't drink beer, but if you do you might find this site interesting. Beerfestivals.org ( http://www.beerfestivals.org ) covers more than 300 beer festivals around the world in addition to other beer-related content. From the front page pick a month....
July 24, 2002Food Reference
Hungry? Check out http://www.foodreference.com/ . The center column of the front page provides a Quote of the Day, a Culinary Quiz and other stuff like Todays Events (just in case you were wondering, today is National Tequila Day.) For the...
April 03, 2002ASFSA Launches Quantity- and Family-sized Recipe Database
The American School Food Service Association has launched a recipe database at http://www.asfsa.org/recipes2/ . Each recipe offers quantity-sized and family-sized versions. Recipes are searchable by keyword, while the advanced search offers additional search options such as ingredient, food type, theme...
Continue reading "ASFSA Launches Quantity- and Family-sized Recipe Database" » January 31, 2002100 Years of Vintage Port
Do different years make so much difference to wine? Apparently so; the Vintage Port Site (http://www.thevintageportsite.com/) has a database of different years of Vintage Port production and their quality. Pick a year (from 1900 to 1998; some early years are...
May 16, 2001Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer Etc.
As I think I've said before, I'm not a beer drinker. But one thing I have noticed is that gourmet beer drinkers are some of the most dedicated fans of their hobby out there, as evidenced by site Beer Mad...
February 29, 2000Real Beer
I don't drink beer, so I don't know too much about the topics at http://www.realbeer.com/ , but those of you who do partake of the stuff, you might want to search the RealBeer Library (links to the zines of online...
February 23, 20001918 Cookbook Online and Searchable
If you're a creature who lives on ramen noodles or instant soup, you won't find too much interesting about Bartleby.com's new addition to their reference site, the 1918 edition of the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (later known as the Fanny...
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