http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/misc/uk/london/pubs/index.html
You
can even add your local local to the list.
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http://www.sonicstate.com/cheese/wofcheese.html
If
you can't live without a fat piece of crusty farmhouse cheddar in your fridge,
or you're barmy about the taste of squidgy overripe Somerset brie, then World of
Cheese is for you: a gourmet's guide to the best stocked supermarket cheeses,
specialist cheese product (stilton with stem ginger is pretty yummy) and smelly
substances of all sorts. Cheese of the Week recommends a family favourite from
the chill cabinet and there's also a page of cheesey links. From parmesan or
torta dolcelate to edam or pont l'eveque - it ain't easy being cheesy!
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http://www.virtualvin.com/
Based
in California, this rather spiffing specialist wine and food centre is,
naturally enough, pretty pushy about Californian wines. No matter Ü all products
are carefully selected from a handful of very snoot vineyards and come
recommended by Peter Granoff, who seems to have a proven track record and also a
great 'nose'! Browsing around the bargains can take some time and a little
ingenuity as navigation is not always simple (the site itself is quite complex),
but it's possible to go straight to a fast order form rather than taking
advantage of the 'remember this item' option as you wander round. Another smart
shopping device is the ability to create a 'personal account'. This then becomes
a useful tool for referencing what you've purchased in the past and comments you
might have made. Ordering can be done in a number of ways and a secure server
allows you to use your credit card or even cybercash. Now there's a marvel.
Shipping and handling rates are calculated automatically when specifying where
you're ordering from. This is a quality service that saves you from having to
nip over to the Napa Valley in person.
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http://www.webserve.co.uk/
Well,
this looks good; not a nut roast in sight. Veggie Heaven is created by Rosamond
Richardson, the vegetarian cookery writer. Theres an impressive collection of
recipes and what's more, they're all interesting, including such delights as
scarlet fruit salad and celeriac remoulade. Theres a Q&A section and plenty
of advice on nutrition and what essentials to keep in your kitchen cupboard. It
does get a bit excitable in the Did You Know section, which is likely to put you
off eating meat for life, but otherwise this is a really interesting and
informative site.
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http://www.unigate-dairies.co.uk/
Doorstep
delivery details, milky recipes and how much fat there is in your average pinta.
And if you think you're going to get seedy suburban 'how's your father' tales in
the section entitled Milkmen's Stories, then get a load of this. Unigate Dairies
milkmen on the Isle of Wight are leading the way with a Neighbourhood Watch
Community Scheme. Police officers on the island have praised everyone at the
Newport Home Delivery Centre for their support of Milk Watch. Good work fellas!
Of limited appeal but professionally put together Ü indulge your love of lactic
products with more than just cereal in the mornings.
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http://www.cajunspice.com/
Tony
is, apparently the first inductee into Louisiana's Chef's Hall of Fame and has
his own brand of food products. Worth visiting for the Cajun links page. Don't
visit this site if you're hungry, though. Some of the recipes such as smothered
okra and tomatoes, or shrimp stew sound truly tastetastic.
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http://www.tizer.co.uk
Any site that
features a pig in a bubble on its front page has got to be good, and this
doesn't disappoint. Based on the latest marketing campaign, the site surfs the
world of 'tiz' and 'tizn't' (that's groovy and naff, to you and me). You can
submit your own suggestions for what's what and what's not to try and win a Sony
DiscMan, and you can try Tizer's own suggestions. Incidentally, their choice for
Sport is the Carling Football site and East Kent Morris men (Internet 22,
September 1996) - which is Tiz and which is Tizn't is anyone's guess. Watch out
for the dastardly bubbles on the left of the page which you have to nab if you
want to go back to the home page.
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http://www.xtc.net/~chris/drpepper.html
What
is Dr Pepper actually supposed to taste like? It's not like Tizer but maybe
Vimto comes close. Along with its ingredients, caffeine content, a little
history and directions to the Dr Pepper Museum (which, incidently, is in Waco,
Texas), this has a whole page of testimony from people who like to drink nothing
else and a link to another unofficial Dr Pepper page which is visually more
exciting and equally as odd.
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http://sun1.bham.ac.uk/GraftonG/cider/homepage.htm
This
is a total text experience all about the fermenting of apples for cider and
pears for perry. It's also the UK twin of a site called Cider Space, so there's
been some collaboration between the two. Unfortunately it's a sombre affair,
hardly infused with the fun and frolics of adolescent evenings that cider
conjures up. Apparently CAMRA has taken up the case of lobbying for more real
cider so it's unsurprising that these pages are on the serious side. However, if
you count cider or perry as one of your favourite tipples, then there are links
to less sober sites elsewhere.
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http://www.marketnet.com/mktnet/kosher/index.html
The
Matzah Market is a mail order firm specialising in Kosher comestibles Ü matzo
items, gefilte fish, crackers, pretzels and noodles, as well as mixes for beef
broth, regular borscht and, of course, chicken soup.
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http://www.snapple.com
Whichever way
you look at it, Snapple is flat. Actually it was one of the first soft drinks to
flout the orthodoxy that sugary liquids for sale in the newsies should be fizzy.
And it got away with it! The Land is awash with fans who reckon Snapple is the
best thing since sliced bread, recounting pointless stories about how they found
a bottle of cantaloupe cocktail with the label on upside down. Whoopee! But even
if you can't stand the thought of pink lemonade, still vanilla soda, mango
madness, cranberry royalle or raspberry iced tea, the Tree O' Flavor is kind of
fun in a colourful sort of way and the Land as a whole sort of cheers you up.
It's a Bali blast!
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http://www.primenet.com/~andspud/recipe.htm
Hived
off in its own area from a very sad bloke's home page (that's Jeff from Iowa!).
Each week, Jeff adds a new potato recipe, such as bacon and avocado potato
salad. A rather sensitive serving suggestion at the bottom of the page trumpets
the flatulence factor. Obviously an advantage if you're on the pull. In this
instance, it's minimal gas.
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http://www.camra.org.uk
This is a
suitably sober presence for CAMRA, quietly supping its way through the real ale
revival. Quite simply it's a source of information Ü links to local branches,
the latest ammendments to The Good Beer Guide, details of festivals and a
catalogue of logo-loaded goodies Ü so if you fancy an assortment of CAMRA ties,
T-shirts, lapel badges, bar towels, playing cards or darts flights, then this
could be for you.
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http://www.sun-maid.com/
Nauseating
tosh about grapes naturally grown in the California sunshine. The whole process
is explained Ü from vine to box! This is by now a standard formula for all kinds
of products and proves to be something of a missed opportunity. An established
fall back is the scrumpy recipes option Ü bran muffins, oatmeal cookies,
cinnamon raisin bread but no Garibaldi biscuits. Shame. If you expected to see
the little critters grinning inanely and cavorting across the screen you'll be
sorely disappointed but the site gets a few points because those baby raisin
boxes made a regular appearance in my school lunchbox. However, once in a while
one is tempted to ask what the point is?
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http://realbeer.com/spencer/
Here
you'll find a number of online home-brew recipe books, including the entire
Cat's Meow series. Bottle-spotters will be thrilled to learn that there are 228
labels displayed in 128 colours.
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http://www1.usa1.com/~roadside/RoadsideWebPage.html
The
corporate 'fries and shake' conformity of fast food chains like McDonalds and
KFC has been very nearly responsible for seeing off the stainless steel
splendour and individuality of the great American diner. Mercifully in recent
years there has been a resurgence of interest in the perky little roadside
prefab, so much so that Randy Garbin has become obsessed with them and vowed to
visit and eat in every diner still standing in the USA. These pages are the
online part of a magazine he is involved with. The pictures are fantastic.
There's a great guide to diners, the occasional recipe and updated monthly news.
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http://www.bakeoff.com/bakeoff/index.html
Every
year Pillsbury holds a competition to find a Pillsbury Doughboy devotee and
bake-off cook-champ. This is American home cooking like Mom never used to make Ü
thankfully. Past recipes include Chick-n-Broccoli Pot pies, Mexican Fiesta
Biscuit Bake, Pinto Bean Taco Pizza, Snappy Turtle Cookies and Magic Marshmallow
Crescent Puffs...all it lacks is a section on finger food. If you fancy a new
culinary experience then this is for you. Rather bizarrely, or not as the case
may be, most of the winners look like something out of Stepford Wives. Kind of
weird.
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http://www.achiever.com/ostrich/index.html
Yup,
it's in the right section. Yup, apparently it tastes yum! Yup, it's got less fat
than chicken and, yup, you'll be eating it before long. It's no use putting your
head in the sand, with current rows over livestock people are turning to less
intensively reared, more exotics meats.This company caters for those interested
in Bernard Matthews-style breeding, availablility and pricing and serving
suggestions...that's if you can catch one.
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http://www.moet.com/
Among all the
loutish lager sites staggering round the Internet, Moet are popping their corks
with this squiffy celebration of ubiquitous yah-yah 'poo. Along with wedding
tips, toasting suggestions and a champers celebration planner for calculating
how much you're likely to quaff, Moet incorporates decidedly snoot coverage of
posh sporting occasions, art exhibitions, film festivals and glamourous galas,
as well as a breathless interactive safari and champers upper-class saga to
which all prose contributions are welcome. Cheers, darling!
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http://www.baking.m-ms.com/
Ever
feel like you're missing out? Why don't we get M&M's Mini Baking Bits over
here? I'll tell you why, because who in this country would seriously enjoy the
all-American 50s suburban housewife finger food as recommended in the monthly
recipes on this page. Sugar cookie jewels, biscuits with brightly coloured,
candy-coated chocolate shrapnel, chocolate pecan shortbread with M&Ms... OK,
where's the export licence?
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http://www.kelloggs.com/
Once
you've checked in with Snap, Crackle and Pop you're free to check out the
kitchen, lounge and rec room for a bit of breakfast cereal fun. Kelloggs has
made the whole thing a child-centred experience with riddles and games as well
as corny facts, rice crispies recipes and nutritional information. The site
won't win any prizes for groundbreaking design but it's kind of entertaining in
a sugary sort of way.
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http://www.jackdaniels.com
Jack
Daniels is not only the best tasting whisky, but it also has the best name and
the coolest bottle. The Web site isn't at all bad either. It contains all sorts
of information on how the whisky is distilled, and is very proud of the town in
which it's made, Lynchburg, Tennessee. What's more there's an ultra groovy
screen saver to download - unless you're a Mac user in which case you just get a
page of garbage. Boo!
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http://www.select-ware.com/fries/
They're
tasty, they're hot and they're here. A whole site devoted to chips - I felt I'd
died and gone to lard heaven. Things to do with Fries (make a French fries
railroad), things you didn't know about Fries ('You won't get your French Fries
served in newspaper in England anymore. They made a law against it.') and the
official US colour chart for Fries. A big greasy, starchy site that's both funny
and well, informative (if you wanted to know these things.)
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http://www.Heineken.nl/
A valiant
effort that looks great and offers nice looking e-cards, the time in Tokyo, Rio
de Janeiro, Moscow etc, a great guide to bars (that serve Heineken) around the
world and Ü no alcoholic beverage site would be seen without it Ü a history of
the product and a tour round the brewery. For a brand that's always had pretty
cool ads, the site lacks a little humour, but there's a great game about
travelling that's played in real time. You are alerted by email, minutes, hours
or days later when, were you jetting across to America for real, you'd have
actually got there. Refreshes the parts other Web sites don't reach.
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http://tornado.gbdirect.co.uk/leisure/hramsden/
One
snivelling little page of 'where to find' your nearest branch of the most famous
chip shop in the world. Bah, humbug! Obvioulsy these days this fish frying
malarkey is just a small part of a major league fat, spud and seafood catering
conglomerate. Where are the tips on making the world's best batter? Who is the
'real' Harry? Does he fry in lard? Answers to these questions and others that
are surely smacking on your salty, vinegary, butty-shaped lips are left
unanswered in the cynical tourist stampede to get you at Guiseley, Blackpool,
Birmingham, Bristol, Bournemouth or Heathrow Airport Ü Heathrow Airport? It
makes you want to choke on your traditional fish supper.
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http://www.greenvale.co.uk
This
is the home page of Greenvale Produce, formerly Dalgety Produce, the largest UK
potato distributor. It's mainly aimed at farmers and has a Q&A section where
you can ask the experts about spud-related matters such as irrigation
restrictions and discuss whether there's a current problem with Scab. The site
itself isn't jaw-droppingly exciting, but there are plenty of useful links if
you're involved with agriculture.
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http://www.gourmetworld.co.uk/
What
at first glance appears to be a stylish food magazine is, in fact, a mechanism
for flogging limited edition prints of fruit and flowers by someone called Anna
Koska. The ubiquitous Gary Rhodes has got himself involved somehow Ü perhaps he
supplied the Fish of the Month information? Ü but my advice is to steer well
clear of these waters.
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http://www.freshfood.co.uk/cookbook
Whatever
way you slice it you can't escape the fact that food is ace - chocolate, lard,
crisps, steak, chips, oh yeah, and vegetables and fruit too. If you think you've
overdone the additives, you may want to pop into this Web site which promises
tonnes of recipes containing 'ahem' 'fresh food'- something of a contradiction
in today's society.You can search for recipes on a particular food, visit the
company behind the site and even send in your own favourites. Choppers at the
ready!
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http://www.webevian.com/
Nestling
on the shores of Lake Geneva, the name Evian is recognised all over the
world.Uh-oh, wrong section. Evian's watery Web presence is more concerned with
relaxing in Alpine resorts, skiing, ice-skating and golf weekends than the
strange mineral properties of bottled water. Fancy an icy splash in a refreshing
spa? The Hotels Royal and Ermitage are fully bookable online. Local attractions
like the Casino Royal get a mention as well as the tennis club and figure
skating results! An all year round summer and winter wonderland.
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http://www.cadbury.co.uk/
With a
pint and a half, that saucy bunny and the biggest brand name in Choc-o-land,
you'd expect something a bit more imaginative from Cadburys than this cheap
looking corporate affair. And with a comedy canon of characters like Mr
Cadbury's parrot and, in the dim and distance past, Frank Muir fannying around
as a Fruit and Nutcake (crazy for those Cadbury's nuts and raisins), it's
surprising Cadbury's have confected something so disappointingly drab instead of
a creamy sweet vision, a wafty chocolate wonderland. Surprising, in fact, that
they haven't spent a bit more money! It's hard to pin down exactly what's so
wrong Ü mediocre design, average ideas, nothing for the Crunchie loving owner of
an Apple Mac. There are, of course, stills, sounds and Quicktime for Windows
excerpts from commercials, recipes for fruit pizza, mini egg crispies and flake
cheescake (no word of a lie) and a quick whip round the Willy Wonkaesque theme
park, Cadbury's World, but it just lacks something. I should cocoa.
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http://www.breworld.com/breworld/index.html
A
veritable beerfest where you can find a pint and a half of everything related to
the world of beer and brewing. Here you can drink deeply of news, listings,
comment and campaigns, all about brewers big and small. Breworld is clearly
compiled by enthusiasts but the approach is highly professional.
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http://www.vins.bordeaux.fr
The
Bordeaux Wine Trade Council and Webs of Gold '96 have produced this very
ambitious site. It looks good with a tasteful beige background and well-placed
graphics. While headlines whet the taste buds some of the copy is not entirely
grammatically correct. Tall claims about a 'voyage of discovery' explain very
little about the vinification process but some individual areas of Bordeaux do
seem to have done a good job. Cotes de Castillon gives us the history of the
region for example. But if there's one lesson we should learn from this site
it's to always drink wine in tulip shaped Bordeaux glasses and to never hold
them by their bowls - only by the stem.
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http://www.clearwater.co.uk/bertie
Could
be suspiciously construed as a panic PR exercise what with poor Bertie still
reeling from the BSE scare, but instead the whole thing (wobbly home page fonts,
clumsy cartoons and rubbish prose) is a bit half baked, feels like half of it's
missing but it takes all sorts (ho ho!). As if that's not bad enough, Bertie's
been kidnapped. Help rescue him from a bunch of fiendish sweet thieves and, in
the process, bag yourself a T-shirt, some liquorice wallpaper and a screensaver
as well. The cutest darn thing about this is the buttons and icons, but does
anybody really like those blues ones with the hundreds and thousands on?
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http://www.benjerry.com/graveyard/index.html
The
final resting place for ice cream flavours that are no longer made. Reminisce
over Brownie Bars (chocolate vanilla sandwiches), Fred and Ginger flavour
(ginger with chocky chunks of sophisto-shaped bow ties), Miz Jelena's Sweet
Potato Pie (too Uncle Tomlike a character), the entire 'Light' range of low fat
products and Chocolate Peanut Cookie Dough (just plain yuk).
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http://www.aardvark.ie./beamish
Basic
storing and pouring facts for Cork's premium creamy Irish stout. A gentle soft
sell site, brewed with care and attention to tradition, but lacking much real
content. A history of the brewery (it's now part of the Foster's lager
conglomerate), a corporate report and a rundown of related brands (Carling Black
Label, Fosters and Scrumpy Jack). Tending towards the ad. sales department
rather than the average customer, it looks clean and smartly turned out.
Slightly pointless place to visit, but pleasant all the same.
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http://www.pompeii.com/atlantic/
Located
in the basement of the Regent Palace Hotel, just off London's Piccadilly Circus,
for the last couple of years the Atlantic Bar & Grill has one of the
capital's swankiest, and snootiest, restaurants. Some might say its star is now
waning but if you can persuade someone else to pay it's worth a trip for the
interiors alone, which are unusual, stunning, and pictured here. The site serves
up the usual information (you're advised to book at least a week in advance) and
anyone interested in special events and menu changes can subscribe to the
Atlantic's newsletter.
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http://www.teleport.com/~tea/
Tea,
though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous
sensibilities...will always be the favored beverage of the intellectual or so
said Thomas De Quincy in Confessions of an English Opium Eater. This and other
eloquent comments grace the instantly relaxing and refreshing pages of World of
Tea. Recipes, the weekly tea price and articles to peruse whilst supping are all
very well, but there no instructions on how to make the perfect cup. For a tea
party it lacks a little zing...
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http://tornado.gbdirect.co.uk/food/steamboat/
Steamboat's
deliciously scented pages are an absolute boon if you fancy conjuring up a bit
of a balti, a bowl of miso soup, some thai fish cakes, egg fried rice or crispy
roast duck. Steamboat supplies hard-to-find specialist ingredients by mail order
and ships in gloriously wafty exotic produce from all over the world Ü rice,
flours, noodles in every conceivable shape and size, tasty chutneys, pickles,
pastes and spicy powders, chili sauces and hot pepper relish that'll tickle your
tastebuds and blow your gourmet socks off. Fresh galangal, lemon grass, kaffir
lime leaves, garlic, chillies, banana leaves, bindi and thai pea aubergines are
flown in every week. It also does cookbooks, kitchen equipment and groovy
cuisine-specific gift hampers Ü a veritable 'ethnic' feast. No more I'll have
the 112 and the 138, please. Can we have some poppadoms with that as well? The
last word in Asian food.
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http://www.cityscape.co.uk/users/er82/freshfoodco/welcome.html
The
Internet is a logical marketing outlet for this extra-enterprising organic food
delivery firm. This page supplies everything you need to know about its
innovative operation because it uses what's called a box scheme. For a weekly
subscription of under £25, a seasonal selection of organic fruit and vegebables
is deposited on your doorstep and the FFC even posts recipes on the Web site for
using up your spare leeks and spuds. Yummy!
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http://www.labatt.com/
A
Mountie-loving, log-rolling, completely Canadian lager site, full to the brim
with wholesome and interesting Northern Exposure-ish sad facts. Canadians can
apply to become a Most Valuable Patron (or MVP) at Labatt's and with membership
come exclusive privileges Ü MVP chat rooms, competitions and a full range of
merchandise. The rest of us get dorky hosts telling us about ice beers and diet
lager, recipes from famous inns and lodges (try cheddar and ale soup) and an Are
you a true Canadian? quiz. No, actually. Overall you'll feel quite left out if
you're not even North American but that doesn't matter 'cause nobody drinks
Labatt's anyway.
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http://www.rain.org/~hutch/sushi.html
Mark
and his Californian mates want to teach you the fine art of Jap fast food.
There's the terminology to learn about, the equipment to prepare and different
types of sushi snacks to sniff, prod and taste. Much misunderstood, sushi is
more than a few raw fish canapÚs: there's tamago (omlette), inarizushi (stuffed
bean curd bags) and nigiri-zushi (seafood, soy wasabi and rice). A few hours
with these pages and you'll sashimi round the kitchen with ease.
Itadakimasu!
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http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/bugsy/
Similar
in appearance to subcutaneous human fat, Lard has a love/hate relationship with
the nutritionally challenged public. A quality product and fantastic for frying
chips, in recent years it has been looked at in the light of new-fangled high
fibre, low fat diets and, unsurprisingly, been found wanting. But a lard cult,
of sorts, is developing apace, promulgating the myth that contrary to popular
opinion, lard is positively good for you. Can this be so? This wages war on that
Rosemary Conley and is a celebration of all that is lardy. Lard lovers stand up
and be counted! For those of a student-type sensibility and a strong
stomach.
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http://www.hisurf.com/nomayo/
Hold
it, hold it...this is not an issue. One man starts a crusade against mayonaise
and soon thousands are joining him. It's not important. It really isn't. Charles
Memminger set the ball rolling when he began publishing No Mayo News. Five years
on the whole thing is snowballing. If mayo makes you gag, fair enough. It does
not merit a world-wide campaign. It's an innocent enough salad dressing and it
definitely doesn't merit a Web site.
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http://www.foodstop.com/
A tasty
American mag full of porky prime cuts, disgusting celebrity recipes and homely
advice from boozy experts and TV chefs. The featured cuisine is fairly standard
fayre Ü no TV dinners, no junk food Ü and verges on the scratch cook supermarket
swank. Recipes for classic New Orleans poor boy sandwiches sit next to the
rather pretentious lamb stew with figs and fennel. What no macaroni cheese? An
interesting, though irrelevant, feature is a round-up of store vouchers and
money off coupons. Top tip: steer clear of Paul and Linda McCartney's chili non
carne and Whitney Houston's candied yams.
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http://www.britishmeat.org.uk/
A
great idea in theory is let down by its own agenda. If you want to push British
meat as part of a healthy diet, then you must be prepared to talk about how it
was reared, in what conditions, and let the consumer make an informed decision
as to whether it is healthy or not. We aren't stupid.
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http://perrier.com/
Mediocre marketing
campaign from big-in-the-80s boom bottled water. If you want to you can order
T-shirts, posters and past artsy looking bottle designs. Lacking in a little
fizz.
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http://bigweb.com/mall/buffalo/recipes.html
It's
probably not something they stock at your local butcher so, along with the
instructions for Bison Stew and biscuits and gravy, there's a form for you to
get some mighty fine meat product shipped out as well.
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http://www.spectrumnet.com/pez/
The
original Pez sweet was marketed as a mint to help adults quit smoking, but the
cute candybrick is now available in loads of flavours and is more well known for
its plastic cartoon head sweet dispenser than anything else. Collected by kids
the world over, there are hundreds of examples here. For God's sake they even
hold conventions for them. Swap your Wonder Woman for my Papa Smurf?
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http://alpha.communicata.co.uk/broonale/
Today's
subject is Newcastle Brown Ale. Here follows a short history lesson. Originally,
when stopping off for a pint, a bloke might tell his wife he was Tekkin the dug
for a waak (hence the top tipple nickname The Dog) and sneak off. Nowadays it's
more like Howay doon to the boozah, pet. Progress eh!
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http://198.3.117.222/index.html
Aside
from the odd cornflake commercial made in the 50s or a soundbite of the little
fella who used to advertise Quisp, there's more here than you'd imagine. The
history of cereal and breakfast economics Ü information with no added
sugar.
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http://www.fritolay.com/
Chester
Cheetah shows you round the wonderful world of Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos and
Cheetos. The snack-fuelled recipes are something else. It ain't easy being
cheesy.
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http://www.birdseye.com/
Given
Birds Eye's contribution to popular culture, let alone to convenience food, it's
such a shame they haven't made more of this. Where is Captain Birdseye? Patsy
Kensit popping peas? Ben with his beefburgers? A Menu Master or two? Tedious
nutritional information and a few recipes is not what we want!
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http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Amy.Gale/recipes/meat/mp-meatloaf-coll.html
Feel
free to add your own recipes or just sample some of Dave's. His secret
ingredient? Dark beer.
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http://broadcast.com/garlic/garlic.htm
Loads
of smelly stuff about garlic. The recipes are a bit basic, but did you know
leeches go loopy for the stuff? Or that some people go for a garlic high?
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http://www.rice.edu/~gouge/twinkies.html
Highly
scientific experiment to test the properties of the mass-made, all-American
sponge cake, the Twinkie. In controlled conditions, a bunch of students
conducted the gravitational response test, solubility test and rapid oxidation
test. In other words, they dropped them, drowned them and set them alight. The
Twinkie came out on top.
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http://www.infi.net/jackdaniels/
It's
all sepia-tinted small town America branding, like The Waltons on hard
liquor.
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http://www.2way.com:80/food/egg/index.html
Head
straight for the Pork Belly news section of this electronic gourmet guide. Did
you know that casualty departments are swamped Stateside with wounds acquired
while bagel slicing? And Pepsi are beta-testing kids on the taste of new Smooth
Moo milk drinks in Oklahoma and Texas? Go Ü Egg.
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http://www.itl.net/guinness/
Top
drink, top ads. Don't bother going to your local, stay in and download the sappy
PC screensaver of that barmy dancing bloke. Da-da-da...da-da-da...
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http://www.benjerry.com
Were this
just a list of all Ben & Jerry's flavours, it'd be a completely irresistible
site...Butter Pecan, Maple Walnut, Coffee Toffee Crunch... As it is, it's some
extraordinarily successful marketing mischief with plenty of extra added
value...Mocha Fudge, Sweet Cream Cookie...and a competition to search for the
secret page. Hurrah for homemade ice cream hippies, Ben and Jerry. It's Internet
flavour of the month.
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http://www.eat.com/
An elaborate scam to
convince the consumer this is not advertising gives itself away on one count Ü
all the scrumptious Italian recipes in Mama's kitchen more often than not
involve the use of one of the products from the Ragu range. Still, there's a
chance to win a trip to Italy and a page of repeat-after-me sound files full of
phrasebook Italian. Learn the vocabulary for ordering in resturants and how to
say 'I feel like chicken tonight'. And Ragu to you, too.
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http://www.limitless.co.uk/winedine
Not
at all snobby or inaccessible, this is an upmarket-type ezine thing for foodies
and wine buffs. What's what, what's in, what's coming up and what you can
afford. Give it a glance before nipping out to Oddbins.
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http://www.imaginet.co.uk/randw/raw.html
Order
the ultimate picnic from this tantalizingly luscious list of Mediterranean mail
order foods. Virgin olive oils, vinegars, salty almonds, walnuts, soft cheeses,
figs, apricots and olives, all washed down with a bottle of wine chosen from
their thoughtful and elegant list.
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http://www.biddeford.com/~dtaylor/ww/ww1.html
Yummy
recipes for jams, jellies, vinegars and syrups, including a special barbeque
sauce. Whistling Wings Farm is devoted to the pleasures of strawberry icecream
and blueberry muffins. It grows and sells heaps of fruity produce and has gained
celebrity endorsements from Arnie, Sinatra and Barbara Streisand on the way.
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http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
A
down to earth approach characterises this organic farmers' home page where a
bunch of Californian growers share eco-expertise. Links to other agricultural
and biology-based sites make for a rich, fertile furrow Ü proof of the organic
lobby's growing presence on the Net.
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http://emall.com/chile/Chile1.html
Join
the Chile of the Month Club, to receive a new exotic hot sauce, recipes, facts
and newsletters each month, or send the world's hottest gift box to a
friend.
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http://usa.net:80/celestial/
Unless you
live in the US, you won't be able to order from Celestial Seasonings' diverse
range of exotically flavoured teas, tea related gifts and apparel. But, you'll
know what to look out for at the supermarket.
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http://www2.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/
What
a shame this experimental and example-setting online pizza delivery service only
delivers graphic facsimiles and not the real McCoy. Wouldn't it be great to sit
down to a piping hot feast of bugs, bolts, kittens, hammers, footballs, goblins
and some of the other paraphernalia on the menu? Nevertheless, it does lay the
foundation for a succesful fast food scheme.
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http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~se4sm/flapjack/
British
flapjacks tasted, rated and slated.
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http://bronze.ucs.indiana.edu/~jkonrath/recipies.html
Here's
a selection of politically-unsound recipes, using found objects and local pets
as ingredients .
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http://www.godiva.com/
This page
almost hurts, with its mouth watering chocolate recipes and meanderings into
chocoholism. What's worse, after it's tormented your tastebuds and left your
tummy causing seismological disturbances, you'll find they don't deliver outside
the US.
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http://chile.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu:8000/www/chile.html
Dip
into Chilean recipes, chemistry, botanical facts, gardening tips and some
general blurb. You can find out what's the hottest pepper, what makes it hot,
how your body reacts, and identify that mystery one in your kebab.
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http://desires.com/wine/index.html
Various
wineries and wine-orientated forums and clubs can be found through this US-based
wine page. You can join even a club to receive regular emailings.
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/restaurant/restaurant.html
The
daily menu here is from the internationally famous Parisian cookery school, Le
Cordon Bleu. There are seven menus on offer, all with full recipes taken from
the book, Le Cordon Bleu at Home. You can find out more about classes in Paris,
London and Tokyo, as well as details of their publications.
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http://chocolate.screem.org
This
page features links to, and short comments about, providers of chocolate and all
things chocolatey on the Internet. You'll be surprised at how many there are,
but at this stage they're all US-based. Not to worry Ü most will deliver
internationally ... if you can wait that long.
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http://tango.hhcl.com/
You may have
seen this address flashed on the screen during the Tango Advertisements in the
Word. You'll find it pointedly tasteless and sometimes humourous and there are
pictures and clips from The Word, all couched in that Viz magazine Top Tips-type
understated irony. But does it sell the product?
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http://www.infi.net/vadiner/index.html
History,
menus and peanut recipes from the Virginia Diner in Peanut Capital of the World.
They also have an extensive selection of foodstuffs, especially peanut products,
which can be delivered within days, to anywhere in the world.
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http://www.intervid.co.uk/intervid/esp
This
is part of the far-too-clever-for-its-own-good advertising campaign by Grolsch
but does it work? Have you or anyone you know switched to Grolsch? There are
also several links intended to tickle the five physical senses.
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http://www.infonet.net:80/showcase/coffee/
There's
enough coffee information, trivia and purchasing details on this site to keep
even the worst caffeine addict happy. There's reference to mail order firms,
reviews, anecdotes, links to similarly minded sites, Usenet newsgroups and
plenty more. An ideal companion for a brew up.
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http://www.public.iastate.edu/~entomology/InsectsAsFood.html
Such
delights as Bug Blox, Banana Worm Bread, Rootworm Beetle Dip and Chocolate
Chirpie Chip Cookies (with crickets). Yum!
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http://lager.geo.brown.edu:8080/virtual-pub
A
pack of drunks getting dewy-eyed over lager Ü just like wine boffs only with
more elbow waving than beard stroking.
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http://www.umich.edu/~spencer/beer/
Here
you'll find a number of online home-brew recipe books, including the entire
Cat's Meow series. Bottle-spotters will be thrilled to learn that there are 228
labels displayed in 128 colours.
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http://www.pizzahut.com
This
pioneering service is becoming as famous as the Internet itself, even though it
can only deliver in California. However, the server is way over in Kansas so
there's no reason why this electronic storefront should not come to a Pizza Hut
near you. If it turns out to be profitable, that is.
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