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A List of Food and Cooking Sites

Name: A List of Food and Cooking Sites
Yield: 4 servings

chefs-mate July 26, 2026

Servings: 4 servings Difficulty: Beginner

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A curated digital pantry of culinary resources.

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This isn’t a dish you cook on a stove, but a treasure map for food lovers. It’s a comprehensive guide to the best online recipe archives, from classic home cooking to exotic ethnic cuisines. Perfect for the digital explorer who loves browsing through old Usenet archives, finding obscure vegetarian guides, or discovering the perfect sourdough starter instructions. It’s the ultimate reference tool for any passionate home cook looking to expand their culinary horizons without leaving their kitchen table. Great for weekend browsing, meal planning inspiration, or when you just want to feel connected to the global cooking community.

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A List of Food and Cooking Sites

Author: chefs-mate Courses: Appetisers

Difficulty: Beginner

Servings: 4 servings

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This isn't a dish you cook on a stove, but a treasure map for food lovers. It’s a comprehensive guide to the best online recipe archives, from classic home cooking to exotic ethnic cuisines. Perfect for the digital explorer who loves browsing through old Usenet archives, finding obscure vegetarian guides, or discovering the perfect sourdough starter instructions. It’s the ultimate reference tool for any passionate home cook looking to expand their culinary horizons without leaving their kitchen table. Great for weekend browsing, meal planning inspiration, or when you just want to feel connected to the global cooking community.

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A List of Food and Cooking Sites A List of Food and Cooking Sites (many thanks to lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) for telling me about the vast majority of these sites, and to other people as well) rec.food.recipes archive sites (Past and present)- NeoSoft FTP archive for rec.food.recipes- Recipe Archive from rec.food.recipes- Usenet Food- UUNET's archive of rec.food.recipes General Recipe Sites- Callahan's Cookbook (from the readers of alt.callahans)- Country Fare for City Folk Cook Book- Fat Free Recipe Archive- Fat Free recipe FAQ and other files relating to the FATFREE mailing list.- Glass Wings: Dessert Recipes etc.- Halcyon FTP Recipe directory- Hazel's Recipe page- Hillegass House recipe page- Index of sho's recipes- Internet Kitchen- Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes- In the kitchen of Janet Starosta- Millsaps College recipes- MS State recipes- NWU's Sourdough archives- Phoebe's Kitchen, AKA Food Items- Pointers to Food Pages- Recipe Archive- Recipe directory- Recipes Index- The Recipes Folder!- Recipes on the net- Recipes on the Net (2)- Recipes Gopher Menu- Recipes Search- UMN recipes- U Texas Sourdough recipe directory- WAIS database of recipes- WAIS database of Usenet Cookbook- WAIS recipes index Ethnic Recipe Sites- Australian FAQs- recipes- Chinese Recipes- Cookbook on Friends & Partners- Creole/Cajun Recipes- Indian Recipes FTP site- La Comida Mexicana (A page of Mexican recipes, in Spanish)- Recipes for Traditional Food in Slovenia Vegetarian Recipes and Information- A healthy vegetable diet (recipes and articles)- Information on Vegetarianism- Vegetarian Recipes FTP Site Drinks- The Beer Page- Boat Drinks- Caffeine Archive- Mothercity Coffee- A Guide to Seattle Coffee- Over the Coffee- Trojan Room Coffee Machine Restaurants- Avalon Restaurant- Bay Area Restaurant Guide- Boston Restaurant List- California Restaurant Guide- Chicago : Restaurants : by NAME- Confucius Chinese Restaurant- Country Fare Home page- Kamikaze Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar- Knoxville and Knox City Area restaurants- EXPO restaurant (Menus from Le Cordon Bleu )- Golden Gate Local Food Menus- Local Menus at Boston University- Palo Alto Weekly runs an Eating Out Column- Pittsburgh Junk Food- Pittsburgh Restaurants- Red Sage- Restaurants and Recipes- San Diego Restaurant Guide- Taste of India Tandoori Take Away- TechNet- Public Service Information- Restaurants- The Virginia Diner Commercial Sites- Cafe Mam Coffee- Godiva Online (chocolate)- Hot Hot Hot (A catalog of spicy foods)- Mail Order Food Sources- a list from the pages of Michael Witbrock.- Myers' Gourmet Popcorn Products and Services- Sid Wainer & Son Specialty Produce & Specialty Foods- Welcome to PizzaNet! (Pizza Hut) Miscellaneous- Ben's Lunch Information- eGG The Electronic Gourmet Guide.- FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition- Food Related LISTSERV Lists- Information on food stuff- Lunch Server- The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook- Ranjit's Lunch- Recipe Software- The rec.food.cooking Album amyl Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science (SCS) graciously hosts the Recipe Archive. We invite you to learn about SCS educational programs and research . Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science (SCS) graciously hosts the Recipe Archive. We invite you to learn about SCS educational programs and research .

Directions

Open your web browser and navigate to the list of food and cooking sites.
Browse through the categorized sections: General Recipe Sites, Ethnic Recipe Sites, Vegetarian Recipes, Drinks, Restaurants, Commercial Sites, and Miscellaneous.
Click on the specific site links to access the recipes or information.
Bookmark your favorite resources for future reference.

Note

This is a resource list, not a physical recipe.

Some links may be outdated as this list originates from older Usenet archives.

Use this as a starting point for finding more current recipe databases.

Keywords: recipe archive, cooking sites, food resources, online recipes, culinary guides, usenet recipes, vegetarian recipes, ethnic cuisine, sourdough, recipe database, food safety, cooking inspiration, digital cookbook, meal planning, home cooking, recipe search, food archive, cuisine guide

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