The Good Web Guide to Food - Hardcover

Muir, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903282012 ISBN 13: 9781903282014

Publisher: Good Web Guide Limited, 2000

Synopsis

This guide contains reviews of over 100 websites which provide information about food and food-related subjects. It is aimed at everyone from accomplished cooks, restauranteurs and specialist retailers to those who are deeply frustrated by the confusion of material on the internet, much of which is misleading and uninformative. Areas covered include online restaurant guides, databases of recipes, information about exotic ingredients, nutrition and the ongoing GM food debate as well as where to meet fellow foodies online and foodie bulletin boards. The book also gives details of the recommended websites for food shopping, and where to buy organic and specialist foods easily and securely.

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Review

Jenni Muir's brisk, businesslike guide to serious food sites on the Web should prove invaluable to food lovers. Although relatively brief, it packs a lot of information into its 120-odd pages. It covers not only general food sites (such as those for Dean and Deluca, the great Manhattan food emporium, the Slow Food Society or the daily recipe service World Wide Recipes), but culinary stars (Raymond Blanc, Claire Macdonald and the food uber-tycoon Martha Stewart), restaurant guides, ingredients, world cuisine, vegetarian cookery, online shopping and, finally, a miscellany of sites concerned with food but otherwise uncategorisable. All the sites have been chosen primarily for quality, but also with other considerations such as ease of use in mind. A summary table for each gives key information: category (e.g. e-commerce or information), frequency of updating, and ratings for navigability, readability, reliability and overall site speed, together with an overall rating. Even this book's brief survey gives a clear idea of the sheer heady variety of information available. Moreover, it's encouraging to see that many of the best sites are not those run for profit, but maintained by enthusiasts keen to share their information and love of food. Jennni Muir concedes that to publish a guide to a medium as protean as the Web is like trying to catch water in a sieve: the book therefore includes a CD-ROM giving access to the Good Web Guide Web site, where regular updates are promised. At the time of reviewing, the site did little more than reproduce the contents of the book, but no doubt in time it will develop into a very useful resource. --Robin Davidson

Edition details

• Publisher: Good Web Guide Limited
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903282012
• ISBN 13: 9781903282014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128