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://www.foodandthings.com
New York City food with a definite tilt toward Manhattan's Upper West Side. Written with verve and local knowledge by Laura Weiss, there's some restaurant info but mostly cooking tips, recipes, and great sources for ingredients.
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.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, appetizing and informing site by Jennifer Hess. She's a home cook and food photographer and writer who started out in Brooklyn and has since moved to Providence, RI so she's still a city cook. She has a busy life, a great palate, a commitment to eating local and quality ingredients, and she's fearless in the kitchen. My kind of city cook. Beautiful photography and occasional recipes.
External Link: http://www.localharvest.org/
Information about farmers' markets and CSAs (community supported agriculture) across the country. A trusted, reliable and independent resource.
External Link: http://www.echonyc.com/~lwollin/greenmarket.html
A daily journal of what's new and available at New York's Union Square Greenmarket by a woman who lives in the neighborhood and visits the market every day it's open. It's a window into what's in season and what farmers are bringing to New York area farmers' markets. Want to know if ramps are being harvested? Lucy will know.
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://ruhlman.com/
"Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen," this blog and website is by Michael Ruhlman, a chef, author, and teacher. Gorgeous photos by his wife, Donna. Lots of inspiration, lessons, enthusiasm, and candor. One of the best food and cooking websites.
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.GrowNYC.org/greenmarket
Here you will find the location, hours and vendors at all of New York City's greenmarkets.
External Link: http://www.notfortourists.com
A resource for where we live because, as the editors say, "people need to use the cities they live in." Their database includes Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris (in English), Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC. The website is a companion to a series of printed guides which includes editions for Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The website isn't limited to food and has resources for all the things we need to live -- stuff and services, plus art and fun.
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://smittenkitchen.com/
"Fearless cooking from a tiny kitchen in New York City." A splendid, engaging and appetizing blog from Deb Perelman. A kindred spirit, a small kitchen, and excellent recipes.
External Link: http://www.facebook.com/thecitycook
Become a fan of The City Cook at Facebook.
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.
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