Recommended Culinary Books
- Jamie Oliver’s Italy
- Jamie’s passion for Italy shines through in this book that contains 120 recipe’s he gleaned from his travels or learnt from locals.
- The Michelin Guides
- A series of annual guidebooks published by Michelin for over a dozen countries featuring recognized restaurants in Western Europe.
- Lonely Planet World Food Guides
- Explores gastronomy in country’s all over the world with culinary dictionaries and glossaries to make your eating vacation all that more enjoyable.
- Time Out Eating & Drinking Guides
- Online and printed guides from the world’s great cities.
- Slow Food Guides
- An organization founded to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat.
- Food and Travel Magazine
- Features destinations to visit, food to sample and recipes to try.
- Zagat Guides
- The skinny on American restaurants and those in London and Paris.
- Patricia Well’s Food Lover’s Guides
- Reliable guides to French and Italian cooking.
- The Little Food Book, by Craig Sams
- Stimulating mini essays about what is wrong with our food today, and how to produce enough food without damaging our health and environment.
- Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluiso
- A collection of full-page photos of families around the world and what they eat. Contains statistics, essays and more.
- Australian Crawl, by Scott Watkins-Sully
- Australia’s country pubs are the places to drink, eat and socialize. This guide contains over 200 watering holes, region by region.
- Wine: What to Drink 2008, by Toni Paterson
- The perfect wine guide for those that love good wine but don’t want to spend too much.
Useful Culinary Websites
- Jamie Oliver (http://www.jamieoliver.co.uk)
- Contains recipes, ideas, books and more from the highly successful television chef.
- Cuisine du Monde (http://www.cuisinedumonde.com/index.html)
- The world’s tastiest and most tempting recipes; individually tested and refined.
- Waitrose (http://www.waitrose.com)
- Bits and bites about eating globally.
- World Food (http://www.worldfood.com)
- Brings exotic flavors and dishes to your table if you don’t have the time to travel and do it yourself. Features Mediterranean, Mexican and Asian food.
- Travel by Food (http://www.travelbyfood.com)
- A website to give people a better understanding of different food from different culture around the world. Check out the photos and description of odd culinary experiences.
- Street Food Around The World (http://www.openair.org)
- Lists street food and markets all around the world.
- Weird Food (http://www.weird-food.com)
- The unusual foods eaten by people around the world.
- Original Belgian Fries Web site (http://www.belgianfries.com)
- Waxes lyrical about the deep-fried potato and its spread around the planet.