The Pollard Memorial Library

Cooking with the Web

Explore the sites below for cooking techniques, recipes, and tips. Bon Appetit!

• All Recipes.Com - Recipes are submitted by site users and are browsable by recipe category.
• America's Test Kitchen - Online access to the PBS show of the same name. Presents unbiased reviews and tests of cooking equipment and recipes.
• Betty Crocker - Recipes and menu planning from Betty's more that 200 cookbooks. Especially fun is "What's On Hand?" where you choose the ingredients you have available and Betty finds recipes.
• Cooking Light Online - Online issues of the popular print magazine--includes recipes and tips for healthy living.
• The Cook's Thesaurus - Online cooking encyclopedia covering ingredients and kitchen tools.
• CopyKat Creations - Archive of recipes very similar to your favorite restaurant or commercial recipes.
• Epicurious Food - Dining and entertaining, restaurant and cookbook reviews as well as recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines in a searchable database.
• GourmetSpot - A megasite bringing the best of food and beverage internet sites to one spot on the Web.
• Mixed-Drink.Com - Search the database for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as snacks suited for a cocktail hour.
• The Natural Food Hub - Information about growing and buying natural foods.
• Recipe Source - The new home of SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes, a database of over 70,000 recipes from around the world. A good source for hard to find recipes.

Selected Books and Magazines at the Library

• Magazines:
  • Bon Appetit
  • Cooking Light
  • Martha Stewart Living
  • Weight Watchers
• Books
  • Chalmers, Irena. The great food almanac - 641.3 CHA Oversized
  • Cool, Jesse Ziff. Your organic kitchen - 641.563 COO
  • Herbst, Sharon Tyler. The food lover's tiptionary : an A to Z culinary guide with more than 4,500 food and drink tips, secrets, shortcuts, and other things cookbooks never tell you - 641.3 HER
  • Hill, Barbara. The cook's book of indispensible ideas - 641.5 HIL
  • Kilham, Christopher. The Bread & Circus whole food bible - 641.3 KIL
  • Larousse gastronomique : the world's greatest culinary encyclopedia - Ref 641.3 LAR
  • Morgenroth, Lynda. Boston neighborhoods : a food lover's walking, eating, and shopping guide to ethnic enclaves in and around Boston - 917.4461 MOR
  • Mr. Boston, official bartender's and party guide - 641.874 MR
  • Onstad, Dianne. Whole foods companion - 641.563 ONS
  • Parsons, Russ. How to read a french fry : and other stories of intriguing kitchen science - 641.5 PAR
  • Petusevsky, Steve. Whole Food Market cookbook - 641.563 PET
  • Stern, Lise. The Boston food lover - 917.446 STE
  • Thomas, Frank. The mocktail bar guide : 200 recipes for alcohol-free drinks - 641.875 THO
  • Wolke, Robert L. What Einstein told his cook : kitchen science explained - 641.5 WOL
  • Zagat Boston restaurants 2002 - 917.44 ZAG