
Research
Pearls Pantry- Searchable
glossary of foods from A-Z.
Epicurious:
Food Lovers Companion - Easy to use on-line edition of "The Food Lover's
Companion".
McCormick Spice Information -Includes
a spice FAQ, emergency substitutions, and spice and herb descriptions.
Dictionary of Cooking
Terms- Alphabetical cooking dictionary.
Food Glossaries
Multi-Purpose Sites
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The Cyber Kitchen -Another
great multifunction web site like Aunt Edna's Kitchen.
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Kitchen Link -
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The Gourmet Connection Ezine
- a great little ezine with tips, glossary, recipes, trivia, and much more.
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Online Chef - recipes, basic skills
and vocabulary.
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Culinaria Online - contains recipes,
glossary, cooking tutorials and much more.
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Wacky Uses - find new innovative
ways to use many common household products.
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HappyCooker - a great source
for all your lab needs with a recipe database to boot.
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The Gourmet Connection Ezine
- a great little ezine with tips, glossary, recipes, trivia, and much more.
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Food Resource Page
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Foodies.Com
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Gourmet World
Library
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Betty Crocker
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Pillsbury
Recipes
Nutrition/Food Safety
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The United States Department of Agriculture-
This site will give you great nutrition information.
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Food and Nutrition Information Center
-Healthy school meals, food safety, food composition.
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Jean Fremont's Food and Nutrition
on the Web -Recipe sites, food links for software, good for international
foods.
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Fast Food Facts - search by restaurant
for facts about the foods they serve.
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Virtual Nutrition
Center - cooking, food science, food management and safety as well
as a database of over 40,000 recipes. This site also has links to
nutrition calculators.
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Diet City - This site contains lots
of articles related to nutrition.
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Disney.Com:
Cyber Lesson Plan: Food and The Holidays -Special foods and meals are important parts of many holidays. Use this cyber lesson plan to explore foods that are part of the holiday traditions.
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Cyber Diet - Take a nutritional
profile here and look through their database of food information.
This site also has a daily food planner, assessment tools, recipes, exercise
tips and much more.
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Dole 5 A Day - nutrition information
for kids, teachers and parents.
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Mayo Center - Headlines, a virtual cookbook, quizzes, reference articles
and other areas from the Mayo Center.
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Center for Food Safety
- excellent for food safety research.
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drKoop.Com:Nutrition Center
-BMI evaluation great!
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Phys:Nutrition for Normal People -Good
info for pregnancy, good food search.
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News and Food Safety
Alerts-- CDC, food borne illness, product recalls, Food Science Curriculum.
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Food Safety.Com -
This is an awesome site for F&CS teachers...with coloring books, quizzes,
word matching, etc.
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The Food Safety HomePage
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American Heart Association
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American Dietetic Association -Great "rate your plate" and other nutrition information.
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CyberPump -body training &
weightlifting, Not a recommended source for nutrition, relys on Nutrition
Almanac.
Sites Designed for Kids
Kids Cooking Club -allows kids to
join a cooking club for $12.95 a month. Kits can be purchased from
the company.
Sites with Teacher Guides/Lesson
Plans
National Pork Producers Council - this
site has 4-5 neat lesson plans on kitchen safety, Meal Planning, The Food
Pyramid etc. Just click on Food Fun for Kids.
You
Are What You Eat: Guide to Good Nutrition Career
Quest - Need a career project? Try this great site! Peapod
Internet Grocer -
Hannaford Markets
- This site contains
an interactive meal planner.
Fresh Starts - free nutritional
information
Healthy Refrigerator
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free nutritional information
Free
Stuff for Teachers
Institute of Food Technology
- Free Video "The Great Food Fight",
National Pork Producers
Council - Send for a free teachers kit here.
Teacher's Kit
on the New Food Label - This kit is provided by the FDA and will cost
around $5.00.
Nutrition
Education Materials for Grades Pre-K through 6.
How My Parents
Learned to Eat - This site will help plan a lesson around cultural
differences between Japan and the U.S.
Food Risks: Perception
versus Reality - lesson plan
Fight BAC- Sponsored by the Partnership
for Food Safety Education. This site contains all kinds of teaching tools
for food safety.
Created & Maintained by Peggy Zurn, Advised by the
Family & Consumer Science Curriculum Committee