THE VIEW FROM HERE

Here are links that do not fall into other categories, such as Shop for Food, Kitchen Tools, etc.
Some links are related to food or diet, directly or indirectly.
Others are simply sites that our staff, or viewers, have found interesting for one reason or another.

Scanning The Web for Recipe Sites

*New* Recipe Sites for the Home Cook
This is a portal for sites judged by the hostess to be of special interest to the home cook. No annotations.
www.connieqcooking.com

World Cuisines
This site lists, with brief annotations, a vast array of recipe sites. You may search by region, or by menu item. A researcher's delight. You can find, for example, 16 sites with recipes for a beer soup.
www.world-cuisines.com.

A Muse for Cooks
     Here is a site that is really unusual, perhaps unique. Jack Turner lists NON-recipes.
     These are for cooks who want ideas rather than specific instructions. He has some 1800 ideas, with nary an instruction as to how to proceed for any of them!
     This site can be a boon for any Busy Home Cook. Everything is itemized by category and then by ingredients.
     Say you plan a salad and have an orange that you want to use. You look under salads, and then oranges (or pears or peaches) in salads. There you see a number of ideas, some of which you have probably never heard of. Chances are one might be just the thing for your dinner that day.
     www.cooksmuse.com

Cooking Recipes Portal
Here’s a site that can help us all make sense of the vast universe of web recipe sites. Sites are separated into eight categories (Huge General Collections, Healthy Sites, Copycat Sites, Cooking Clubs, Cooking Humor, etc.) Special Flavors appears in the Personal Collections category. Then each category has subdivisions, while commercial and non-commercial sites are distinguished.
A message board is shared with Berta’s Cooking. (Sometimes the Web doesn’t seem so huge after all.)

Recipe Sites of More Than Routine Interest

Recipe Archive
A large and fast database for photographed recipes of all sorts. As our own recipe collection includes practically no desserts, here you can find the missing cakes, muffins, cookies, brownies, ice creams, pies, tarts, puddings, and much more.

Southern Cooking at Angelfire
     This site offers a spectrum of Southern recipes, which site editor Timothy Everhart describes as "Down Home Southern Cooking, at its best."
     Try Pork Chops in Apple Gravy, Creamed Okra and Corn, Porcupine Meatballs.
     Desserts, or course, are abundantly in evidence, with such as Peach Cobbler, Old-time Buttermilk Pie, Soft Molasses Cookies. With sites like this, we are feeling less guilty all the time about not offering desserts in our own recipe collection. If I ever cooked desserts, I’d sure try some of these out of the Old South.
www.angelfire.com/on/VideoPhotoAlbum/Recipes.html

Bertas Cooking
Great cooking recipes, handy kitchen tips, and a lot of fun.

www.fatfree.com
Low-fat vegetarian recipes and discussion. Provides simplified web access to the USDA Nutrient Database.

www.newigwam.com
A community website for Native Americans in the Northeast. The Discussion Board section has some Native American recipes.

Wine

Oregon Wines
These folks provide wine enthusiasts with a comprehensive resource of educational articles, tasting reviews, directories of Oregon wines and wineries. Their goal is to help wine enthusiasts develop an appreciation for Oregon's fine wines. www.OregonWines.com

Diet and Nutrition

Tufts University Nutrition Navigator.
This stands apart from many other sites in that, beside guiding you to sources, it tells you whether you can trust them on a given subject.
Websites are reviewed by Tufts nutritionists, who apply rating and evaluation criteria developed by the Tufts University Nutrition Navigator Advisory Board, a "prestigious panel of leading U.S. and Canadian nutrition experts." Site reviews are updated quarterly. http://navigator.tufts.edu

HealthGate
When we researched nuts, we were guided to this site by the Tufts University Nutrition Navigator. If the site can be trusted on nuts, we should think it could be trusted generally. (If you have any doubts, check with TUNN above.) http://www3.healthgate.com

Cleaning

How to Clean Anything
Clear instructions to clean your house, auto, pet, baseball glove, computer keyboard, you name it. http://www.howtocleananything.com. The site is exceptionally easy to use, and presents entertaining articles as a bonus.