Culinary Arts: Culinary Web Sites

More than ribs this is an overall BBQ how-to site with extensive info on techniques, recipes, equipment and history.

Want to know who is the pastry chef at the French Laundry? ChefDB is an ongoing project aimed at documenting and promoting the work history of chefs and food & hospitality professionals around the world.

A food lover's link to professional chefs. Several chef forums, cookbook and cookware reviews, photos and articles

Where famous foodies hang out.

A web site for everything cooking related. Look for daily link to something interesting, chef's calculator, discussion forum, articles, recipes, and an interactive recipe exchange.

Recipes, articles, community, videos, food news, dictionary, iphone apps and podcasts

Was an IACP award nominee in 2014.

This website is about the origins of foods, food issues, food advertising, and foods in other countries.

Listing of upcoming culinary events as well as a "This Date In Food History" section.

From a university food science site

Food news.

An encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools, include pictures, synonyms, and suggested substitutions. Useful when a recipe calls for basil and you don't have any or if you want to know if you can use a different fish when a recipe calls for snapper.

A comprehensive resource on the history of what humans have been eating from from 17,000 B.C. onward.

A blog about everything one gas grill enthusiast has to know from useful guides to detailed gas grill reviews.

How to select the best smokers and grills as well as BBQing tips and recipes in the blog area.

Food industry news, analysis and research.

From King Arthur Flour, this portal offers a huge selection of items for bakers from tools to ingredients to recipes. Sign up for their helpful newsletter. An IACP award nominee in 2014 for their blog.

Lior Lev Sercarz's spice blends that are used by some of the world's best chefs

Authoritative wine site

Meat smoking is a popular way of cooking, as it allows you to cook food (usually all different cuts of meat) using smoke from a source of heat. The temperature is kept between 225 and 275 degrees which is then maintained over many hours, this consistent heat breaks down tough tissue.

The website evolved from a 25-year archive of recipes generated by chefs, teachers, cookbook writers, home cooks, food makers, and more. They're constantly updating and testing it, and adding to it. There are well over 10,000 recipes.

Was an IACP award nominee in 2014.

Texas Monthly magazine BBQ site.

Covers thousands of wineries and their release dates.

Comprehensive wine web site with information for the novice to expert. Read news, articles, search the winery database, find the right wine for a meal with the interactive food and wine matching guide and browse menus.