Food, cooking and nutrition links

One of the toughest things about using the Internet to learn about food, cooking and nutrtion -- for me anyway -- is just being able to stop.

Or looking up only the thing I'm seeking, and resisting the temptation of a million tantalizing avenues of exploration as they pop up. "If I don't look now, I'll never remember to come back," I think. "Or even if I remember, how will I ever find this again?"

There is so, so much fantastic stuff put out by so many knowledgable and passionate folks, working on their own or as part of larger organizations. It's thrilling to live at a time when there's a platform for so many creative and well-informed perspectives. I've assembled some food, cooking and nutrition links to share with you. Here you'll find many of my favorites, along with many intriguing links worth looking into further.

• Cooking and Recipes
• General Food Info
• Real-Food and/or Low-Carb Perspectives
• Low-Carb and Paleo Discussion Groups
• Directories

Cooking and Recipes

Kelly the Kitchen Kop: "Healthy cooking, traditional food, vibrant health, and busting politically correct health and nutrition information."

Uncle Phaedrus bills itself as "Consulting dective and finder of lost recipes, with the Hungry Browser Irregulars." The logo features a Holmes-type character, with iconic pipe and deerstalker hat, in silhouette. Note that bubbles, not smoke, emanate from the pipe. Got a recipe mystery? Write to Uncle Phaedrus -- he's been taking cases since at least 2000.

Cheeseslave: "For the love of cheese. And bacon. And butter. And raw milk. And all those other things we're not supposed to eat."

Nourished Kitchen is spectacularly beautiful, densely informative and fun. It's not often that you get all those three together on one website. Jenny's real-food philosophy is very close to my own, and her site is rich with her passion for sustainable agriculture, traditional foods, home ferments and more.

Mexican Recipe4Living is a recipe sharing site with a great selection of reader-submitted recipes and a lovely tag line: "Share your inner chef.". Also visit sister sites Indian Recipe4Living, Italian Recipe4Living, and, while you're at it ... Recipe4Living.

General Food Info

Food Books seems to be, sadly, no longer active as a place to buy the many books listed and categorized here. However, the titles themselves are mesmerizing, and a great jumping-off point for exploration elsewhere -- like perhaps your public library.

The Food Section is a good-looking site that's frequently updated with news and features about cooking, food, dining and wine. As its name suggests, it feels kinda like the food section of a newspaper. A really good food section in a really good newspaper.

Real-Food and/or Low-Carb Perspectives

Lowcarbarama.com is another website from me, Vesna. It's where I like to share news items of special interest and rant about them.

Adventures in Diet by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Harper's Magazine, 1935, reprinted on the Pinch of Health website. Stefansson, an explorer, lived with the Inuits and for years shared their nearly all-fish-and-meat diet, virtually free from any carbohydrate. This lengthy article goes into detail about his experiences with Inuit culinary culture, and his year-long urban all-meat experiment, which was conducted by a team of researchers from institutions including Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago.

Gary Taubes has been writing and speaking about what he's learned from his decade-long survey of the past hundred years of nutritional theory and research. In a nutshell, he discovered that public policy and mainstream headlines tend to diverge from actual scientific findings. At his website, you can read his blog and find out about his books and articles.

Real Food Media celebrates "real food, small farms, green living."

The Healthy Home Economist provides "wellness information stripped of the cleverly disguised profit motive."

Diet-Heart Publishing features articles and videos with some stunning information about the link between a good diet and a healthy heart. Hint: A "good diet," according to Alan Watson, who runs the site and wrote the publishing company's flagship book Cereal Killer, is not based on Froot Loops -- or Special K either, for that matter.

Livin' La Vida Low-Carb blog is essential reading for anyone interested in restricted-carbohydrate nutrition for health and weight loss. Since around 2005, no one has been more active than blogger and podcaster Jimmy Moore in the movement to get the word out, bringing together scientists, doctors, nutritionists, fitness professionals writers and others.

Deconstructing Dinner is an award-winning Canadian radio show also available to hear as a podcast. Since 2006, the weekly broadcast has featured over 200 mind-blowing, intricately crafted shows on issues that matter to everyone who lives and eats on Planet Earth, covering topics like GM (genetically modified) livestock and agriculture, organics, sustainable agriculture, agribusiness, transnational food corporations and more. Turn on your brain, tune in, and get ready to be informed -- and, often, shocked.

Lowcarbblogs.net gathers and presents articles from lots of different low-carb article and recipe sites. If you visit just one site for the latest in what people are saying and doing -- and cooking! -- in the low-carb world, this would be a great choice.

Low-Carb and Paleo Discussion Groups
Are you wondering what the fuss is over restricted-carbohydrate dietary approaches? Would you like to engage in actual conversations with people who've been researching, thinking about and following the lowered-carb lifestyle for years? Find lively colloquy at any of these venues.

Low Carb Friends Bulletin Boards

Active Low-Carber Forums

Livin' La Vida Low Carb Discussion forum

A Pinch of Health low-carb and weight-loss support forum is based in Australia.

Caveman Forum describes itself as "The most popular Paleo diet and caveman exercise discussion site."

Nutrition on Crossfit Forum: The nutrition discussion area on the Crossfit foum, which is dedicated to "forging elite fitness" through a paleo approach to exercise and diet.

Directories
Here you'll find sites devoted to helping you find whatever web resources you're looking for, be it recipes, cooking techniques, culinary history or what have you. These human-edited directories can also be helpful if you need to build some inbound links pointing to your own website.

JustMemo.com

Craig's Directory has an extensive and unusual selection of food-related websites listend under Recreation Directory: Food.

Business on the Net

Free Directory Listing - Dir Listing Web Directory is a human edited, Fast Link Approval, Search Engine Friendly Free Web Directory which has optional features of regular, reciprocal and featured links

MySpace Directory

ZoocK Directory

Build useful web links using www.crosslink-builder.com

Rankland Web Directory