External Link: http://www.CupcakesTakeTheCake.blogspot.com/
This blog is listed here for the same reason Moss is included. Sometimes you just have to look at beautiful things.
External Link: http://www.allrecipes.com
A recipe collective featuring more than 40,000 free recipes submitted by home cooks from around the world. Many of the recipes seem like they've been passed down from one generation of home cooks to the next which makes this a good place to look if you're craving a favorite dish or a cookie from your childhood. It includes a rating system which is helpful since the recipes are tested by those who submit them instead of a professional test kitchen.
External Link: http://www.bkafka.com
A recipient of the James Beard Foundation Award Lifetime Achievement Award, Barbara Kafka writes superb cookbooks that are both best-selling and wonderfully useful (Roasting, Microwave Gourmet, Soup, Party Food, and her most recent Vegetable Love). Her clean, welcoming site is rich with advice for technique, working with ingredients, and recipes. Her blog is periodically updated, there's a recipe library, and she invites you to send her questions.
External Link: http://www.CityLore.org
City Lore is an organization of cultural activists with a mission to "foster New York's and America's cultural heritage." These are the people who bring us The People's Poetry Gatherings, catalogs of the city's cultural events and parades, The People's Hall of Fame, and other rich, spirited resources like NPR's "American Talkers" radio series. If you love New York's rich diversity, this organization will delight and inspire you.
External Link: http://www.davidlebovitz.com/
The subtitle for this site is "…Living the Sweet Life in Paris." Lebovitz's skills as a former Chez Panisse pastry chef and writer have produced some cook books -- see our review of "The Perfect Scoop" -- as well as this web-based love affair with Paris, chocolate and good food. The site includes a number of recipes, mostly for sweets, but I like to visit it whenever I miss Paris.
External Link: http://www.epicurious.com/
This is probably the mother ship of recipe search engines. It contains the archives of both Gourmet and Bon Appetit, has a very useful search engine, and can be inspiring if you're planning a holiday meal and have run out of ideas for what to cook. I particularly like the feature that lets home cooks give feedback on the recipes. The site is over-designed and it's annoying to get through all the ads and promotions, but head for the recipe search and you'll do fine.
External Link: http://blog.foodienyc.com/
I love this site for no other reason than its dedicated campaign called "I Loathe Sandra Lee" host of the Food Network's Semi-Homemade Cooking. By all means, cheer them on in this worthwhile and meritorious cause.
External Link: http://www.gothamist.com
New York's a big town with lots of small nooks and crannies and Gothamist knows them all. This site is all about local knowledge: what's important, what's current, what's good. It's also highly democratic with contributions from our fellow New Yorkers which means its news can give you a closer-to-the-ground alternative to NY1. And because we have a food perspective, we also encourage you to visit their cooking and food shopping sections. Look in the left margin for a drop-down menu of categories and you'll find them there.
External Link: http://www.jacquespepin.net
Chef Pepin is a great chef, a gifted teacher and yes, one of us – a home cook. His web site isn't as good as you'd want it to be but there is a recipe index that can inspire and even better, a fantastic "Tips & Techniques" section with clear instructions, photographs and videos about such really useful topics as "How to Sharpen a Knife," "How to Open a Clam," "How to Peel an Onion," and much more.
External Link: http://www.justfood.org
A non-profit organization that works to develop a sustainable food system in the New York City area. They also connect farmers with New Yorkers, thereby helping the region's family farmers and giving city people at all income levels access to high quality, locally grown affordable produce. A truly wonderful organization.
External Link: http://www.lastnightsdinner.net
An authentic, engaging and informing site by Jennifer Hess, a Brooklyn home cook and food writer. She has a busy life, a great palate, a commitment to eating local and quality ingredients, and she seems fearless in the kitchen. My kind of city cook. Beautiful and appetizing photography add to the site's appeal.
External Link: http://www.marthastewart.com
At the top of this site's home page is a tab for "Food." Clicking on this will bring you to a sub-site all about food and cooking that is rich in recipes, menu ideas and helpful techniques. I particularly like all the ideas for holiday meal planning and cooking, Cooking 101, and the "Techniques, Tools and More" section for help on things I either have never done or don't do often. The site has been re-designed and is now so loaded with content, video, advertising and interactive bits that it can be difficult to work your way through it all. But for ideas and demos, the site remains first-rate.
External Link: http://www.michaelpollan.com/link.htm
Author of the best selling and provocative The Omnivore's Dilemma, Mr. Pollan is a contributing writer to The New York Times and the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. But the main reason I love his web site is for his useful, substantial and generous list of links to more than 60 organizations involved in the protection, cultivation, monitoring and advancement of our precious food supply.
External Link: http://www.mossonline.com
I've included this site simply because this SoHo store sells the most beautiful things. Glassware, dishes, barware, vases, flatware, and on and on. And all fabulous.
External Link: http://www.cenyc.org
Here you will find the location, hours and vendors at all of New York City's greenmarkets.
External Link: http://www.rafael-u.com
Most of us cook so that we can eat well for both our health and for pleasure. But being healthy also means staying fit. When it comes to exercise, getting expert help can make all the difference in getting the results we want. And when I need help, I always turn to Rafael Ulloa who is one of New York's top personal trainers and fitness experts (and a really wonderful guy). Visit his website for advice, tips, and new ideas for your fitness routine, nutrition, preventing injuries, and other information about achieving what Rafael calls "peak performance for everyday life."
External Link: http://www.RecipeSource.com/
This site used to be known as SOAR: the Searchable Online Archive for Recipes, and with a name like that it's not surprising to learn it was started by a technology student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990's. It has about 70,000 donated recipes and what's appealing about this site in comparison with AllRecipes.com are its many international recipes. This is a place to look for recipes from the Caribbean, most of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and everywhere else in the world.
External Link: http://www.slowfood.com
A non-profit organization with 80,000 members worldwide. Formed in 1989. Their mission: "to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the world."
External Link: http://www.fairwaymarket.com/index.cfm?Area=blog
Steven Jenkins is the man who tracks down and buys Fairway's exotic selection of olive oils, spices, harissa, vinegars, salt-packed anchovies, salt-packed capers, and more and more. His blog is a spirited and uniquely New York rant about anything that happens to be on his mind, mostly food-related but not always. You'll come to love the guy.
External Link: http://www.MySpace.com/TheCityCook
We're always looking to find other urban home cooks so we made a page on MySpace. Come be our friend.
External Link: http://www.foodsubs.com
A free on-line cooking encyclopedia. This is the place to go if, for instance, you have to buy a cabbage and you can't tell the difference between a Napa and a Savoy or a green cabbage. The site has helpful photographs and useful tips about buying and storing different foods.
External Link: http://www.foodnetwork.com/
As its slogan warns us ("way more than cooking" -- ugh), more and more of The Food Network's programming is about eating and not cooking. Still the recipe search engine can be really useful as long as you become acquainted with the skill of the individual chef. For instance, I don't usually like Emeril Lagasse's recipes (they never taste as good or cook as easily as you'd think from watching his programs) but Ina Garten's are outstanding.
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