January 28, 2005

Recipe Websites
Today I discussed my favourite recipe-oriented websites and featured a recipe downloaded from the Toronto Star website for chicken scaloppini with a balsamic vinegar and basil sauce.

Featured Websites

• Epicurious:
  This is the home page of Bon Appetit and Gourmet Magazines. It has a huge searchable recipe archive, with comments from readers, a culinary dictionary, and more.
  
  
• The New York Times:
  I frequently visit the New York Times food and dining section on the web since it has a lot of great stories that are of general interest, and Mark Bittman's 'The Minimalist' columns will always give you a fast idea when you're stuck on what to cook for dinner.
  
  
• The Toronto Star food section has a good online food section, and other U.S. sites worth visiting include the L.A. Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, which both have extensive food and dining websites:
  The Toronto Star
  L.A. Times
  San Francisco Chronicle
  
  
• Food Network Canada:
  This specialty cable channel website gives you access to ALL the recipes you see on the TV shows, you can search by show, or enter ingredients or dishes into the recipe search engine.
  
  
• Fine Cooking Magazine:
  One of my listeners told me she met her husband through the online recipe forum!!
  
  
• The Webtender:
  If you want to know how to make a Manhattan, or a Rusty Nail or a Cosmopolitan, you have to visit The Webtender, where you can find out how to make any mixed drink in the world!