Links

Baking Resources

especially for those interested in baking bread at home

 

• Baking 911
• King Arthur Flour
• The Fresh Loaf
• Sourdough FAQ
• Sourdough Journal–a blog dedicated to the trials, tribulations, and successes of baking sourdough at home
• Ten Tips For Better Bread

Cooking Resources, Recipes, etc

some of my favorite sites

 

• Food & Wine Magazine
  
• Food Maven
• Girls at the Grill
  
• Mighty Foods
  
• NPR’s Kitchen Window
  
• Recipes at Epicurious
  
• Slashfood
• The Cook’s Thesaurus –great resource!
• The World’s Healthiest Foods
  
• Well Fed Network
  
• Yahoo! Food

 

Food Photography Resources

a few places to start if you’re interested in food photography

 

• Food Photography Blog –various articles on food photography
• Food Photography Tips –from 101 Cookbooks
• Notes about Photography –from Matt Bites
• Professional Looking Food Photography –a photo pool on Flickr
• Still Life With… –by Lara of Cook & Eat

Cooking Videos

 

who needs the Food Network? Check out what people are doing in their home kitchens!

• Collective Kitchen –improvisational cooking videos
• Dani Spies –quick, simple, delicious
• Vodpod: Pinch My Salt –a collection of cooking videos I enjoy

 

Food Blogs I Enjoy

there are so many wonderful food blogs out there…this is only the beginning

 

• Binnur’s Turkish Cookbook –wonderful Turkish recipes
• Blue Kitchen –from Chicago, food, jazz, and great writing
• Bron Marshall –from New Zealand, beautiful photos and recipes
  
• Bucky’s Barbecue Blog –barbeque, homebaked bread, and much more
  
• Cocinova –from Barcelona, recipes in English
  
• Coconut & Lime –original recipes by a food-obsessed, cupcake-loving girl in Baltimore, MD
  
• Cook & Eat –interesting recipes, beautiful photography
  
• Cooking with Yiddishe Mama –tons of great recipes
• Cream Puffs in Venice –Italian flavors from Canada
• Crispy Waffle –more than just waffles
  
• Culinary Concoctions by Peabody –from Seattle, WA
  
• Culinary in the Desert –from Maryland
  
• David Lebovitz –American pastry chef blogging from Paris
• Davidosa –from Brazil, in Portuguese
  
• Delicious Days –from Germany, in English
• Eaten Up –vegetarian recipes
• Empty Belly –vegetarian recipes from an American in Norway
  
• Erin Cooks –great recipes with step-by-step photos
  
• Everybody Likes Sandwiches –tons of recipes from Vancouver, BC
• Foodbeam –gorgeous pink blog from France, in English
  
• Food “Blogga” –east coast girl lives and cooks in L.A.
• Gezellig Girl –from New York
• Happy Burp –from Maharashtra, India, in English
  
• Homesick Texan –Texan, living in New York
  
• Il Cavoletto di Bruxelles –in Italian
• In Mol Araan –from Greenwich Village, New York, in Yiddish and English
• In Search of Dessert –American, in Switzerland
• Jeena’s Kitchen –from England, creative, original recipes with photo tutorials
• Jumbo Empanadas –go big or go home
• Kalofagas –in pursuit of delicious foods, from Toronto
• La tartine gourmande –some of the most beautiful food images and recipes around
  
• Life Love Chocolate –vegetarian
• Lime in Heaven –really cute new food blog!
• Lobstersquad –from Madrid, in English
  
• Lucullian delights –Swedish, living in Italy
  
• Madchilli –live mad, eat chili
  
• Mahanandi –Indian recipes
  
• Matt Bites –very entertaining food blog from a very talented food photographer
  
• Ms. Adventures in Italy –an American, living in Italy
• My Husband Cooks –wonderful writing, stunning photos, great food
• My Sister’s Kitchen –so many recipes, so little time
• Nando’s Anonymous –for those addicted to Nando’s Peri-Peri
• Nesting Notes –very cute blog about food and life
  
• Nika’s Culinaria –food and wonderful photography
  
• Posie’s Place –a Scot living in Basel, Switzerland
  
• Rice and Noodles –another food blog with breathtaking photography
  
• Rubber Slippers in Italy –Hawaiian, living in Italy
  
• Simply Recipes –Best Food Blog 2006
  
• Something So Clever –Getting her bitch on in the kitchon
• Spicyana –Gorgeous photography and great food!
• Stephencooks –kitchen diary of an obsessed amateur cook
• Steve’s Hot Dogs –my favorite
• Stone Soup — all good things to eat
• Sugar and Lard –it’s about food and stuff
• SugarCookieBrooklyn –about Brooklyn with lots of photos and yummy restaurant reviews
• Sweetnicks- Food & Life –recipes and fun events, updated daily
  
• Tasting Life… –very talented young cook from The Hague, Netherlands
  
• Technicolor Kitchen –from Brazil, in English
• The Traveler’s Lunchbox –travel, food, beautiful photography
• The Village Vegetable –vegetarian and vegan recipes, from New York
• To Be Mrs. Mary… –beautiful photos and recipes
  
• Viaggi & Sapori –an Italian, living in Sweden
• Vegan Ventures –100%vegan recipes
• Veggie Cookbook –vegetarian, mostly south Indian recipes. Love this one!
• What geeks eat… –these geeks eat very well
  
• What we’re Eating –silly banter, seriously good recipes, mouthwatering photos
  
• What’s For Lunch Honey? –from Germany, great food and photography
  
• Whistlestop Cafe Cooking –from the Original Whistlestop Cafe

 

Baking Blogs

food blogs that mainly focus on baking

 

• Alpineberry
  
• Bake or Break
  
• Baking Bites
  
• Tartelette
  
• The Barmy Baker

Gardening Blogs

my favorite gardens

 

• Gardenpath –from Maine
  
• In My Kitchen Garden –from Missouri
  
• My Tiny Plot –from Bath, England
  
• The Inadvertent Gardener –from Iowa

Where I shop

I do a lot of online shopping, these are some places I recommend

 

• The Baker’s Catalogue –great resource for bakers
• Cooking.com –you can find anything here
• Sur La Table –expensive, yes, but good selection
• Amazon –need I say more?
• The Spice House –freshly ground, hand mixed, and delivered to your door!
• Burt’s Bees –I love this stuff
• Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps –the best soap in the world
• Powell’s City of Books –yes, there are alternatives to Amazon
• Nando’s Peri-Peri –get all your favorite Nando’s sauces here

 

Other Interesting Sites

I do have other interests besides food

 

• The Sound Palette –for your listening pleasure
  
• The Words Palette –a collection of articles, book reviews, online texts
  
• IMDb –the Internet Movie Database
• Mark Morford Archive –SF Gate columnist and my not-so-secret crush
• Slate Magazine –news and stuff
• All Songs Considered –NPR’s online music show

 

 

Blog Friends Forever

some good friends who blog

 

• A Rhino Walks –a writer in Portland, OR
  
• Bambino Balent –baby adventures in Sicily
  
• BlogLily –a writer in Berkeley, CA
  
• Captain Jack’s Big Adventure –canine adventures in Sicily
  
• Consuming The World –an American couple in Sicily
  
• Emonome –a little bit of everything, good stuff to be found here
  
• Experience Aurie –a banker in New Jersey
  
• Just us –a couple in Virginia
• McGyver’s Roll of Duct Tape –external introspections from California
• Our Favorite Things –an American rasing a family in Norway
  
• Ryan Waggoner –from San Francisco, a little bit of everything
• Sicilian Mama –from Sciacca, Sicily, pictures and commentary about Italy and Sicily
• Stella6 –from San Francisco, ramblings about life
• Stimolo Percettivo –from Niscemi, Sicily, a blog about the arts, in Italian