WSG Newsletter: Food for the HolidaysIssue: December 9, 2000 Tempt your Tummy OnlineThe holidays are fast approaching and most of us need all the help we can get with entertaining. The Web is an at-your-fingertips resource of menu planners, recipe files, and how-to instructions. Whatever you seek – from fruitcake to tofu turkey – the Web will have it. This newsletter presents web sites where you can find all the resources you need to host a holiday gathering - food ideas, beverage concoctions, and tips on entertaining. Delectable Dishes - Recipe SiteWhether you are mainly a meat eater, voraciously vegetarian, or simply a sweet tooth there will something to tempt your taste buds at the web sites listed here.  AllRecipes.com -- A bonanza of recipes!
Browse through well-organized categories and visit the 'Meal of the Day' for
complete meal ideas with nutritional breakdowns. Register for 'My Recipe Box'
where you can create a personalized Allrecipes.com cookbook to store, rate, and
add private notes to favourite recipes. Epicurious "For People Who Eat" -- With over 10,000
recipes, extensive food and wine dictionaries, information on etiquette and
ideas on entertaining, experts and novices alike are sure to find something to
their liking. SOAR (The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes) - University of
California Berkeley's recipe database - one of the original recipe web sites.
Browse or search a collection of over 69,000 recipes on this extremely
user-friendly, non-graphic intensive site. If you have an original recipe that
you would like to share with the world submit it the SOAR and they will include
it in their collection. Meals.com has everyday recipes, holiday recipes, meal plans, and
ideas on what to do with leftovers. Try the recipe Quick Search. Type in the
ingredients in your fridge and retrieve a recipe. Register and use the My
Planning Center to save recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists. Subscribe to
their Newsletter and get meal-planning resources delivered directly to your
e-mail twice a month. StarChefs.com -- Wish you could cook just like Julia Child, Emeril
Lagasse, or Dana Jacobi? Check out the recipe book of your favourite celebrity
chef or find resources on how to become a professional chef. Look out Bobby
Flay…Food Network here I come! Meal For You - It's Friday evening, you just got home from work, the
house is a mess, the fridge is bare, and you have 6 friends coming over for
holiday dinner tomorrow night. Don't fret if you don't have time to search
through endless cookbooks - visit Meals For You. Click on the Seasonal Meals
link for meal ideas from appetizer to dessert. Each meal includes all the
recipes needed to create it, as well as the nutritional information per
serving. Meals For You also has a generous supply of individual recipes broken
down by category - comfort food, gourmet food, tastes of the world, diabetic
diets, specialized diets and more Canadian Living Recipe Archives -- Think the staple foods of Canada
are back bacon and maple syrup? Let this web site prove you wrong. You'll find
a nice collection of recipes selected from those featured in Canadian Living
Magazine and Canadian Living Television. VegWeb's Recipe Directory - You can please the vegetarians and vegans
on your holiday guest list with recipes from VegWeb's directory. Try creating a
delicious meatless dish featured in the one of the many categories. Food Network - The web site for the TV Food Network, this site has
recipes, menu plans, biographies of master chefs, and entertaining tips. Find
out when your favourite Food Network show is running or get recipes featured on
any of the recent shows. Cheers - The Beverage Department Choosing the right beverage is important – a festive cocktail, a warm punch, the wine to accompany the turkey, a wine with dessert. These sites will get you started. The Wine Spectator -- The Dining section of the Wine Spectator
provides information on which wines to serve with which meals and recipes that
make great partners with wine. The Food and Wine Matching component is great.
Select a dish you are serving and with the click of a button you can find out
the perfect wine to complement it or select your favourite wine and with a
click of a button find the foods that go best with it. Wine Today -- Everything you always wanted to know about wine, from
the New York Times. This web site will please the wine connoisseur as well as
those of us who just want to learn which wine goes with which food, how to
serve wine, how to taste wine, and how to read wine labels. Cocktail - Bored of the same old drink? Want to impress your guests
with a Cosmopolitan? Use the Virtual Blender to search for cocktail recipes by
ingredient or try the Drink of the Week. iDrink.com -- Show off your bartending skills at your next cocktail
party by boning up at this web site. Browse through iDrink.com's huge
collection of cocktails or use their ingredient search to find a recipe that
will finally help you get rid of the Cherry Liqueur that's been sitting in the
back of the liquor cabinet since last Christmas. The Webtender - "An On-Line Bartender" - Visit this site
for everything you've ever wanted to know about bartending and how to make
those special concoctions you only order when you're on vacation. Wines, Beers and Spirits of the Net -- Dean Tudor, member of the
Wine Writers Circle of Canada, has supplied the online community with a
list of links to all things alcoholic online. Scroll through the comprehensive
list to find a link to the homepage of your favourite single-malt scotch,
Polish vodka, Ontario wine, or Belgium beer. Feeling creative? Find web sites
that will teach you how to make your own original wine and beer for the holiday
season. Flora's Drink Hideout: Non-Alcoholic Drinks -- The designated
drivers at your holiday gathering shouldn't be relegated to drinking just
straight soda. Tickle their taste buds and help them feel part of the
festivities by concocting great beverages (sans spirits) using the long list of
recipes at Flora's web site. How to do itRecipes are fine, but how does one actually roast a turkey? eHow has answers.  eHow has step-by-step instructions to
everything for the holidays from making a holiday wreath to turkey gravy. If
you get really stuck, there are live experts on hand you can ask in Ask an
Expert. What – no mention of Martha Stewart? -- The chatelaine of TV,
radio, and the Web in matters of the home, Martha has holiday entertaining
covered. Setting the Table 101 to cooking goose for New Years. She’ll even
mail out the invitations. Try the Recipe Search too – has more than 1000
recipes. Web Directories Have MoreSubject directories like Yahoo, Looksmart, and Open Directory will have an entire section for food and drink. Try looking under category headings such as, Home, Lifestyle, Society, or Culture, for the section on food and drink. Two, in particular, will help locate the most popular and best known sites quickly – DirectHit and Google Directory. DirectHit determines popularity by tracking the click-throughs to
sites. The Recreation | Food category section has collections for Recipes and
Drink. Over 3,000 recipe sites are classified into sub-categories for type of
food. The Holiday category has top sites for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
Google Directory is a Google ranked version of the Open Project
Directory. Google re-ranks the sites listed in OPD to show at the top those
sites that have the most links to them on the Web. In the category for Cooking
| Recipe Collection, the top two are the Fannie Farmer Cookbook (the Bartleby
copy of this 1918 classic -- has recipes and menu suggestions) and All
Recipes.com. Search the WebUse a search engine and some simple search syntax to find a favourite chef or a favourite dish. If you salivate at the mention of Paul Prudhomme's Cajun delights, run a search at Google for “paul prudhomme” Cajun. If you are specifically looking for recipes, add recipe as a search term. If you squeal at the thought of eggplant parmesan, go to Go.com and type in your search for “eggplant parmesan” recipe. For a menu that has this as the main dish, try “eggplant parmesan” menu. Any of the major search engines will find web pages for these searches. Use the list of best search engines in TIG Research in Web Searchingfor descriptions of the major search engines and tips on syntax (Search syntax). ConclusionWill we ever need to buy another cookbook or guide to entertaining? If anything, the Web has too many sites. Bookmark two or three that you really like, consider a Web directory when you need to find other specialty sites, and run a quick search at a search engine to find specific recipes or chefs. |
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Newsletter by Laryssa Tyson. Laryssa helps keep TIG up to date. She also has her own website business. See her home page at http://www.sitebytyson.com/.
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