Shirley's Food & Cooking Bookmarks

Cooking Apparel
Cookware
Groceries & Specialty Foods
Recipe Collections
Publications & Reference
Articles of Interest
Suggestions for Starter Kitchen
Hand-Pulled Noodles Video


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CAHM 167  Ethnic Foods and Cooking Practices: Resources (always under construction)
Spring 2005 Syllabus
IndiaJoze.com
Sample Final Project Paper (Note: this paper is not an interview-based paper. Other types of research papers are acceptable with permission of instructor.)
Specialty Food Stores near Santa Cruz (Joz list of area ethnic food stores) and on-line specialty food store listings
Dom's Kefir In-site (everything you ever wanted to know about kefir)
Gernot Katzer Spice Pages (very detailed descriptions of 117 spices, mostly Asian)
World Food Habits Bibliography
Cook's Thesaurus

The Food Timeline and The Culinary Timeline

Indian
Asiafood.org - India
Greek-Turkish
Turkish Cuisine
Greek Cuisine (including Basics of Greek Cuisine)
Indonesian
Merry's Kitchen of Indonesian Cuisine (see ingredients glossary) and Sally's Place, Indonesia (short history of the cuisine)
Persian
Persian Cuisine
Asia Food -- Persian Cooking main page and regarding Persian New Year's Celebration
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (recipes and food-related articles)
Asia Food - Sri Lanka
Burmese
Burmese Cuisine
Balinese
Food In Bali (also see Cooking in Bali and Recipes)
Moroccan
Sally's Place, Morocco
Vietnamese
Vietworldkitchen.com
Vietnam Style Gastronomy
Thai
Thai Cuisine
Thai Cooking and Travel (lots of good info on Thai cuisine from Bay Area instructor & author, Kasma Loha-unchit)
Collections
Asia Food (a very large site with tons of info on most all of the cuisines on the syllabus.)
AsiaRecipe.com (information on the cuisines of 22 Asian countries)
DMOZ Open Directory Project -- World Cuisines (many pointers to recipes and information on every cuisine)

Cooking apparel
Chef Direct
Chef Revival
Chefwear
Culinary Classics

Cookware
Home cookware
A Best Kitchen
Baker's Catalogue
Caplan Duval (discounted Le Creuset & china)
Chef's Catalog
Cooking.com
Crate and Barrel
Cutlery and More
Fantes Kitchen Wares Shop
Food Service Warehouse  (online distributor of restaurant equipment and supplies; also see their Education Center)
Happy Cookers (Shop on-line or visit store in Hollister CA)
Hollingsworth (butcher block products)
John Boos & Company (butcher block products)
Kitchen Krafts (baking supplies)
Professional Cutlery Direct
Sur La Table
Williams-Sonoma
Restaurant Equipment & Supplies
Central Restaurant Products
Economy Restaurant & Bar Supply
Food Service Direct
Ledyard (Check on-line catalog, then call to order & pickup in Santa Cruz)
Next Day Gourmet (On-line catalog & ordering)
Peerless Restaurant Supplies
Restaurant-Store.com
Sharpknives.com
Superior Products (Order on-line from printed catalog or visit store in San Jose CA)
Wilton (cake decorating supplies)

Groceries & Specialty Foods
On-line grocery shopping (for local pickup)
Albertsons
Peapod
Safeway (some locations)
Specialty Food Stores near Santa Cruz ((list from Joz Ethnic Cuisine class)
Mail Order
Asia Foods
Dean & DeLuca
Ethnic Grocer 
King Arthur Flour
Monterey Bay Spice Company
Morton & Bassett Spices
Oriental Pantry
Penzeys Spices
The Spice House
Specialty Food Directories
Asian Markets Listing (sources for Asian groceries)
California Halal Market & Restaurant Directory (sources for Middle Eastern foods)
India HQ (pointers to everything Indian, including food)
iShopIndian
Path2usa.com (sources for Asian and Indian groceries)
Zabihah (sources for Middle Eastern foods)
Recipes
Collections
Arielle's Recipe Archive
Epicurious
Food TV
Global Gourmet
HomeArts
Meals for You
Online Chef
Recipe Source (the former SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes)
Star Chefs
What's Cooking
Noted chefs
Baker Boulanger (Marcy Goldman)
Good Eats Fan Page (Alton Brown)
Jacques Pepin
Julia Child on PBS
Martin Yan
Paula Wolfert (Moroccan food)
Rebecca Wood

Source Listings & Reference Sites
Industry Associations
California Fresh Apricot Council
California Cheese Association
California Milk Advisory Board
California Rare Fruit Growers
California Salmon Council
The Mushroom Information Center
Potato Industry information

Professional Portals
AllFoodBusiness.com
Chef2Chef
ChefNet
Food Service Warehouse Education Center (includes articles about all aspects of commercial equipment)

Publications
Art Culinaire
Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Food Arts (free to the industry)
Gastronomica
Kitchen Garden Magazine (out of print)
New York Times Dining & Wine
Saveur
Wine Spectator Magazine
Cookbooks and Culinary Texts
Jessica's Biscuit (new & out-of-print cookbooks, discounted)
Cooking and Baking References
Baking911
Cook's Thesaurus
Culinary Software Services (equivalents & yields for many foods)
Food Fit (seasonal food guides)
Gernot Katzer Spice Pages (very detailed descriptions of 117 spices, mostly Asian)
Miss Vickie's Pressure Cooker Web Site (way better than the name would suggest)
Wine References
eRobertParker.com
Nat Decants (articles and pointers to other useful wine sites)
WineAnswers.com
Other
Monte Python's Cheese Shoppe Skit Transcript
Articles of Interest
Get the Skinny on Food Poisoning, Lewis Wallace, Wired, April 1, 2003
The Smell Report, Social Issues Research Center, Oxford, UK (undated)
Isolating the Fifth Element of Taste, Thomas Maeder, Red Herring, February 9, 2001