Mick’s Picks:
Cuisine

Cuisine-Gourmet/Healthful

• Food Reflections Newsletter Archives: February 2001
  Provides information about substitutes for common ingredients.
• Global Gourmet
  Provides a review of a food and nutrition related web site each week, includes foodwine.com and the electronic Gourmet Guide.
• Good Cooking’s Main Page
  This web site features food, wine and cooking with professional recipes, submitted recipes, recipe links, good cooking information, nutrition links, consumer information, fish/shellfish recipes, culinary schools links, food facts, wine links, wine information, free recipe submission, travel information, food definitions, culinary information, fun facts and brain food. Advertises food, wine, food preparation and travel products.
• Living Language
  Web site that gives you an on-line lesson in French to help when you dine out in a restaurant.
• Meals For You
  Web site that gives on-line information on recipes, complete meal planning, nutritional analysis and lots of information on meal planning.
• Nutrition Cafe
  Web site that features fun, nutrition education games. Can be for all ages – fun and interesting!
• Preparing Healthy Food: How To Modify A Recipe, HYG-5543-94
  A web site that provides information on substituting ingredients in recipes to make them healthier.
• OASIS (Online Advice & Shopper Information System) – Fruits & Vegetables
  This web site gives information on fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs and includes information about selection tips, nutrition data, seasonal peaks, recipes and trivia.
• The Recipes Folder!
  The web version of the English Server’s recipe folder offering a number of recipes from various university and organization including some vegetarian sources.
• Turkey for the Holidays
  This web site, provided by the University of Illinois Extension, provides information on cooking techniques, side dishes, what to do with leftovers, turkey carving, links, and much more.
• The WEBB COOKS
  American Diabetes Association web site features articles and recipes appropriate for use by persons with diabetes or those just interested in healthful foods. THE WEBB COOKS articles by Robyn Webb, MS, a nationally known cooking school instructor, nutrition educator, and cookbook author.
• Wheat Foods Council – Grains Nutrition Information Center
  Your source for news and tips on how and why to enjoy more grain foods for better health.
• Williams-Sonoma
  This is the official web site for Williams-Sonoma. Included is an online shop, gift registry, recipes, and more.
  • Williams-Sonoma – Recipe Home – Recipes from the Williams-Sonoma web site.

Individual Foods/Spices

• Dictionary
  This site has recipes for breads around the world, definitions of various types of breads. The dictionary is searchable on food topics A–Z.
• Dole 5 A Day
  This web site emphasizes the need to eat at least 5 servings a day of vegetables and fruits.
• Food Online – Buyer’s Guide
  This site featuring commercial equipment and buying or packaging food in a commercial surrounding. Available are free newsletters and trade publications.
• Herbs and Spices
  This site, maintained by Ann Hertzler, Extension Specialist, Human Nutrition, the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia State University, contains the history and much information about herbs and spices.
• Hershey Foods Corporation
  Web site includes information about Hershey foods and recipes using the Hershey product. Gives some history about chocolate and an explanation about the different types of chocolate.
• Home and Family Network
  This web site contains comprehensive information on all types of recipes, and food-related information available on the internet.
• Lycos search: pecan pie recipes
  This web site features various recipes using pecans, including pecan pie recipes.
• Seasoning
  This web site that provides links to a list of several spice companies around the world.
• Spices, Etc.
  This web site provides hints on how to use spices to enhance cuisine. It also provides hints on reducing sodium in your meals and use spices instead.
• The Ultimate Caramel Chocolate Pecan Pie
  This web site features Chocolate caramel pecan pie similar to one served in Ireland.
  • RecipeLand.com – A searchable recipe site.

International Cuisine

• Eleanor’s (Czech) Kitchen
  This is a web site on Czech cooking, recipes, and stories, etc.
• Flying Noodle
  Are you looking for gourmet food, pastas and sauces from Italy and America or a great food gift? Take a look at this web site.
• I Love Pasta – Pasta Shapes
  This web site provides information on various pasta shapes, what food would be good with each pasta shape, what types of sauces would be good with what shape and other information for pasta lovers.
• International Gourmet World of Cheese Club
  This web site includes recipes using cheese, imported cheeses, gourmet food, and shopping for cheese.
• Le Fruitier
  An alternative web site for finding those hard to secure items for your favorite French recipes. Selection of gourmet products of the soil, quality and traditional food from famous grocery in Provence of Avignon in France located in the area between the sea and mountains. Gourmet foods such as truffles, foie gras, extra virgin olive and flavored oils, appetizers for aperitif, can be purchased from this web site.
• Welcome to Epicurious
  This web site features wine, gourmet recipes, etc. It has links to other food sites.

Texas/Southwestern

• Kitchenlink.com
  The Kitchen Link is a comprehensive, organized listing of recipes and food-related information available on the Net.
• Texas Monthly Ranch: Marketplace: Shopping
  This site was created for the Texas Monthly Magazine for anything “Texas”, includes clothes, food, sites, etc.
  • Recipes

Vegetarian

• FATFREE: The Low Fat Vegetarian Archive
  Fat-free recipes are featured at this web site.
• FNIC (Food & Nutrition Information Center) – Vegetarian Information
  Many vegetarian links, general information, vegetarian nutrition for kids, resources, diets and recipes.
• Veggie: The Amherst College Vegetarian Interest Group
  The primary goal of this site is to educate the community around about the personal and global impact of dietary choices. They encourage people to be more conscious about their eating habits, and to make informed decisions about what to consume.
  • The Vegetarian Food Pyramid – This web site shows the adaptation of the U.S.D.A. Food Guide Pyramid emphasizing the vegetarian diet.
• Vegetarian Nutrition & Health Letter (VNHL) – Loma Linda University
  VNHL is a university-associated publication devoted to vegetarian and vegan issues with information to help readers plan meals that are easy, delicious, and healthful.