Pete's Land O' Food Page

DC Area Cook-in

I loves me some ostrich, or some other uncommon carbon-based life-form food product

• John Romkey's Guide to Eating Large Flightless Birds
• The Ostrich's On Line page, complete with recipes and nutritional and order information.
• The Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipe page. The Banana Worm Bread sounds yummy...

Interesting food products

• Penis Pasta. This page has been censored out of fear of the Communications Decency Act, but if you look carefully, you might find the uncensored version there. Back to the product, the manufacturer/distributor (Spencer & Fleetwood Ltd.) also offers Pasta Boobs.
• Vegemite Central - Everything you ever wanted to know about Vegemite, that yummy concentrated yeast extract spread from Down Under. You can even order some, if you dare.
• Armour Pork Brains In Milk Gravy. The SHOP! Information Services' Disturbing Product of the Month.

Food producers

• The Egg Farm Dairy page. Jonathan White is a cheesemaker making butter and cheese the old-fashioned way in Peekskill, NY.

Culinary schools

• The Guide to Cooking Schools by ShawGuides is the standard reference for culinary school information
• The California Culinary Academy, in San Francisco, Ca., one of the top schools in the USA.
• The Culinary Institute of America, located in Hyde Park, N.Y., also considered one of the best, if not the best, in the USA.
• Pennsylvania Culinary, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania Academy of Culinary Arts, in Pennsylvania.
• Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Hospitality Careers Department, in Alberta, Canada.

Chef's Home Pages, or sites featuring chefs

• The Star Chefs page features short biographies about some of America's hottest chefs, as well as some of their favorite recipes and book information. This is a cool site.
• The America's Ten Best Pastry Chefs as chosen by the editors of Chocolatier Magazine. There's some good recipes here.
• Nicolas Steenhout

Information about Food

• The Epicurious Food Dictionary page.
• The Coosemans Worldwide Guide to Specialty Produce page. Not sure what a cherimoya or an ugli fruit is? Check it out here.

Some Nice Sites

• The Pastry World home page.
• The Cheshire Crafts food page. This place claims over 23,000 recipes, and also offers cooking files and programs. Be prepared to spend some time there...
• The French Fries home page. Everything you wanted to know about fries; you can even learn what French people in Quebec do with French Fries (they call it poutine).
• The Epicurious Food page, from the folks that bring you Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
• The TV Food Network page. Guides and schedules for the shows are available, as well as the recipes done on the shows.
• Mimi's Cyber Kitchen. Perhaps the premiere web site for food information.
• The Food Museum page. This site grew out of the Potato Museum, so that vegetable is prominently featured here.
• The UC Davis Department of Viticulture & Enology page, for wine-lovers.
• The Coca-Cola in Space page. Pictures and the history of The Coca-Cola Company's collaberative work with NASA to bring the best cola drink to our astronauts in orbit.
• The Farmer's Market Online page is a weekly "open-air" online market. There are booths to visit where you can buy produce, specialty foods, and even livestock. You can also discuss or exchange news, ideas or items of interest on food, gardening, crafts, and farming.
• The Culinary Connection page. Pointers to food newsgroups, other culinary sites, Internet newsgroups, and access to 50,000 online recipes, or so they say.

Recipe Collections

• The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page. Yum.
• The recipe page from Mimi's Cyber Kitchen.

Links to other pages of links

• The links page from Mimi's Cyber Kitchen.
• The Cheese links page has a bunch of neat cheese related links.
• Vicki Braun's Eat, Drink, and Be Merry site has a whole bunch of pages with links to other sites.
• Chuck Taggert's Culinary Resources on the World Wide Web listing, part of The Gumbo Pages.
• Chris Tate's Food Links page has a little bit of everything.
• UC-Davis Wine URLs page, with a tremendous number of pointers to wineries, vineyards, and other wine information sources.
• Andy Biegel's Other Culinary Links page.
• The Fooddude (Foresight Food Marketing) links page
• The ShawGuides link page

Food marketers

• The Fooddude (Foresight Food Marketing) page

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