field notes: news & resources for re-linking the food chain

cook books & cooking resources we like

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Our favorite and most often used cook books:


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Useful, well-designed web resources with an emphasis
on keeping things simple:

culinate.com – in addition to great recipes, tips for eating well, news, food politics, book reviews.

saveur.com – just launched a new site that aggregates recipes from all over the web.  It’s beautiful, easy to search and has a useful  techniques section.

food press – word press curates and aggregates recipes from food bloggers

the Minimalist – Bittman’s New York Times column.

Rouxbe – an online cooking school that gets down to basics (some of the content requires a membership fee, but there is a lot of good, free instruction).

Peak Season Map – an interactive guide to what’s in season in your state, with recipes, at Epicurious.
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