Food and food science. cooking, food service, nutrition.

See also: School nutrition

Pick of the crop American School Food Service Association Nice colourful site with material for teachers (lesson ideas), parents and students, as well as a (rather brief) Child Nutrition News Section, and food and nutrition tips. "the only organization in the country devoted exclusively to protecting and enhancing children's health and well-being by operating nutritious food service programs and providing proper nutrition education in public and nonprofit private schools."

Dietary Managers Association

This is a large "not-for-profit association established in 1960 that today has over 16,000 professionals dedicated to the mission: "to provide optimum nutritional care through food service management." DMA members work in hospitals, long-term care, schools, correctional facilities, and other non-commercial settings. The association provides career training direction and resources, continuing education and professional development including certification, and monitors industry trends and legislative issues."

The web site has on-line chat facilities for members, as well as index of topics for their Dietary Manager Magazine, some links and a visitor survey. There is also a useful educational module on Food Protection, which has a slide show and self-test.

Project PA: Pennsylvania School Food Service Education

Collaboration was formed between the Pennsylvania,Department of Education, Penn State University, and an Advisory Board, consisting of Pennsylvania School Food Service Directors to create a statewide, school food service education campaign, Project PA. The scope of the project is ". a two-year educational campaign. to enable approximately 900 School Food Service Directors (SFSD) to select and successfully implement appropriate menu planning and assessment protocols for their schools." The site has information about the project itself, plus some food and nutrition links.

FoodNet: food service, food news

"This service enables you to search current food news and the FoodNet database." Food service and food consumer focus. (Note that there is another Foodnet, which is part of the CDC's food safety program

The National Association of College & University Food Services

Information on jobs, resource networks, regional activities, news of the day, educational programs and organisational detail.

National Food Service Management Institute

The National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) is a Center established by Congress, administered by the USDA/FCS. Their site has information about the First Choice program for delivering meals to children, a set of fact sheets from their Child and Adult Care Food Program and organisational and publication information.

Net Food

"NetFood Digest reviews a different food and cooking website every Monday.

The NetFood Directory features thousand of links to food and cooking pages."

Sweet Technology Food Resource Center

A major commercial food industry site from a food industry consulting company. The site features great graphic design and has lots of food, food service and cooking links, recipes and a discussion group (Food Talk) on-site.

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American Culinary Federation

An American association of cooks and chefs, their web site has press releases, membership details and publications.

Epicurious dictionary

Search or browse under name of foods and other culinary terms. For foods, learn about them in terms of a cook's perspective, but also some simple nutrient information.

Food festivals and food-related events throughout the USA: - Abundance Across America!

Listing of food festivals throughout the USA.

FoodLines

Very well constructed site for food lovers, rather than nutrition science. Restaurants lists, recipes, food news etc.

Food Museum: Alimentarium de Vevey

From Switzerland and currently in French only (with German and English versions under construction), this is the web site of a food museum. The Museum has sections on historical, anthropological agricultural and cultural aspects of food and eating. The web site is partly information about the Museum, and partly information from the displays themselves.

Frontier Herb Search Engine

Search for articles on herbs, both medicinal and culinary.

Global Gourmet Search

Part of Global Gourmet site, can search their site for information mainly on international cuisine, recipes, goumet food information etc.

The Global Grocery List Project

School project which encourages students to collect local grocery prices for a variety of specified items and add them to a global list. Students from around the world can compare foods and prices, and teachers can use the figures for math, nutrition and Social Studies activities.

Mimi's Cyber Kitchen

"Here you will find everything that is currently available in the way of food-related links..from recipes to information about how to do things, from instructions on growing your own produce to the medicinal values of certain foods. "

The Food Resource

From Oregon State University. Lots of foods are listed in a long table,many of which have textual material and one or more .jpeg images. "The purpose of this information base is to provide a large collection of jpeg images of foods, other foods references, and links to related documents."

Food news releases

PR and news release site. These are food, cooking and food product related stories, some with graphics (cartoons etc.).

Sweet Technology Food Resource Center

A major commercial food industry site from a food industry consulting company. The site features great graphic design and has lots of food, food service and cooking links, recipes and a discussion group (Food Talk) on-site.

Foodworks

Offers information on food trends and the "food professional's point of view. Recipes, information on state of the art cooking equipment, cookbooks, cooking schools, restaurants and nutritional information." Colourful site which has resulted form the collaboration of a food writer and a web designer.

Internet Food Channel

Large and professionally developed site on food, food news from a wide range of newspapers in the US, food site links (with search engine), chat lines, cooking and recipe sections etc.

SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes

Nearly 40,000 recipes searchable by keyword, or listed by food type, country of origin, and purpose.

Woolworths

Dietary advice, cooking tips and recipes from nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, information on food ingredients, food additives and meal planning.

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Chinese Health Foundation of Australia

Has a focus on cultural nutrition issues, although the web site itself has more information about the foundation and its research and education projects amongst the Australian Chinese community, rather than direct didactic content. The material is in English, (although there are some Chinese characters scattered around!).

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Has a particular interest in cultural nutrition issues, although it is primarily a clincal nutrition journal. On-line abstracts and it has another web site as well for issues from 1992-9.

Food Museum: Alimentarium de Vevey

From Switzerland and currently in French only (with German and English versions under construction), this is the web site of a food museum. The Museum has sections on historical, anthropological agricultural and cultural aspects of food and eating. The web site is partly information about the Museum, and partly information from the displays themselves.

The Global Gastronomer - Cuisines of the World

"This site is devoted to links to recipes, food history, and food lore of all regions of the globe". Click on a world map and get list of links to sites with relevant national cuisine. (Not all countries by any means have this feature working yet). Also links to other relevant sites.

The Global Grocery List Project

School project which encourages students to collect local grocery prices for a variety of specified items and add them to a global list. Students from around the world can compare foods and prices, and teachers can use the figures for math, nutrition and Social Studies activities.

SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes

Nearly 40,000 recipes searchable by keyword, or listed by food type, country of origin, and purpose.

Traditional (Native American) food and nutrition

Excellent site with lots of information on native American foods, nutritional problems, sources of nutrients and general nutritional information. The site author expresses a personal view and this makes the site all the more interesting.

Yahoo! - Entertainment:Food and Eating:Countries and Cultures

Reasonably good list of links.

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Pick of the crop The Paleolithic Diet Page Lots of links to web sites to help understand what the hunter-gatherers ate.

Atlas of Paleovegetation

Preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the Last Glacial Maximum

Food Museum: Alimentarium de Vevey

From Switzerland and currently in French only (with German and English versions under construction), this is the web site of a food museum. The Museum has sections on historical, anthropological agricultural and cultural aspects of food and eating. The web site is partly information about the Museum, and partly information from the displays themselves.

Pictorial history of nutrition

From Vanderbilt University, a pictorial collection of historical significance in the development of nutrition science, for example of landmark publications. Web site has a sample of the pictures on-line. Topics include beri-beri, culinary history, discovery of vitamins, infant feeding, obesity, paediatric nutrition, pellagra, rickets and Vitamin D, scurvy and Vitamin C.

Origins and Evolution of Human Diet

"Presented in association with a Scientific Session at the 14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Williamsburg, Virginia, this web page is intended to serve as a central repository of information and links pertaining to the study of the origins and evolution of human diet." Abstracts of presentations, links to other sites.

Paleodiet: archives

Archives of an email discussion list.

Prehistoric Diet: course from Indiana University

Course information for their students, but there are some useful references to reading matter relevant to the subject.

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