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Cooking

Cooking

Whether you're a dedicated foodie or just trying to get a weeknight dinner on the table, the Cooking Web Guide takes care of all your cooking needs. Not only does the guide help you find recipes and cooking tips suited to your skills and kitchen ambitions, it also helps make cooking easy, fun and healthy. Find recipes and specialty food items, watch video demonstrations to learn new dishes and techniques, and get ethnic food recipes and more.

Recipes

Recipes litter the Web and a Google search may yield hundreds or more, so how do you choose? ... read more »

Ethnic Recipes

With the help of the Web, the dizzying world of good eats and ethnic recipes are ... read more »

Gourmet Food

Thanks to the Web, you don't have to be Indiana Jones to hunt down the right ingredients. Use the ... read more »

Ingredient Substitutions

Maybe you don’t have a particular ingredient, or you're looking for low-fat, low-carb or ... read more »

How to Cook

With the help of a few well-chosen Web sites, you can start from scratch and learn how to cook using basic cooking techniques. And for more advanced cooks, plenty of sites offer further tips from fellow home cooks and the pros.

Insights on How to Cook

  • If you're a busy cook trying to make weeknight meals nutritious and easy, online menu planners can be a lifesaver. This article from USAweekend.com explains some of the more popular online menu planners.

Top Sites on How to Cook

For online cooking tutorials ...
The Reluctant Gourmet is a self-taught home cook whose well-written instructions not only teach you how to sauté and what mise en place means, but why you need to know. 
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Expert Village has an "Easy Cooking Tips" series that includes instructional videos by Chef Louis Ortiz. They're short, concise and nicely produced, and his unassuming manner doesn't get in the way of the lesson.
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The eGullet Society for Culinary Arts and Letters offers online tutorials for every aspect of cooking on their forum site. The courses, such as the excellent "Basic Knife Skills" and "The Truth About Braising," are comprehensive, incorporating lab assignments and Q&A sessions.
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The New York Times writer Mark Bittman brings an unpretentious old school New York attitude to cooking. His articles are accompanied by video features on how to cook such dishes as risotto, falafel and how to make your own chili paste.
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The Cattlemen's Beef Board and National Cattlemen's Beef Association show you how to identify basic cuts and what to do with leftover strip steak. This is the site of an industry trade organization so don't rely on it for unbiased health information.
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The National Pork Board has a "Pork Cooking Basics" section that walks you through different pork cuts, how long to cook them and how to create "the well-equipped pork kitchen." Like the Beef Board, this organization is not unbiased.
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The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service presents a fact sheet on preparing poultry, an authoritative guide to safely buying, storing and cooking poultry.
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HowStuffWorks has a chart detailing how long to cook vegetables by different cooking methods (for example, steam, microwave, blanch, boil and more).
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Kitchen Tools

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