Home & Garden Cooking

Have you noticed that the World Wide Web is the ultimate cookbook? Page after page of unlimited recipes and virtual menus -- plus the most convenient way ever (except for maybe over the back fence) to share old favorites and new ideas.

It doesn't matter whether you're a professional chef, a kitchen-challenged beginner, or like most of us, somewhere in the middle. The Internet provides instant access to the latest trends, family fare, holiday treats, ethnic dishes, gourmet classics and more. That's why DigiTex.net has reviewed some of the most popular and helpful cooking sites, and then listed them below in alphabetical order.

Don't forget -- DigiTex.Net's Home & Garden collection also includes a comprehensive and alphabetized list of home improvement and gardening links.

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Algy's Herb Page

Herbal Heaven! This generous site is well-organized and informative, with helpful hints on growing, drying and cooking herbs.

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Barbecue'n on the Internet

Recipes, techniques, secrets, etc. -- this is definitely an art, not a science.

Better Homes & Garden Kitchen

Classic cookbook gets even better online: recipes, interactive guides, discussion groups, and food and cooking links.

Bon Appetit Magazine

This popular food and entertaining magazine is even better online.

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The Cookie Lady

Devoted (OK, obsessed) fan of chocolate chip cookies lists classic recipes as well as a few variations.

Cooking Light

Hundreds of recipes straight from the pages of "Cooking Light" magazine. You can search to match ingredients or key words in a recipe.

Country Living Cooking

If you were country before country was cool, you already know to look here for cooking ideas.

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Epicurious

For people who eat. Includes more than 6,000 recipes from Bon Appétit and Gourmet at your fingertips -- along with wine tips, restaurant and book notes, and practical kitchen tips.

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Fine Cooking

Dedicated to the timeless art of cooking. Read magazine features, thumb through recipes files and share ideas.

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Gourmet Magazine

The "Magazine of Good Living" features the three "R's": recipes, restaurants and reviews.

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Hot Salsa: Dedicated to the brave souls who first developed a taste for Mother Nature's vegetable equivalent of the fire ant. Recipes online include the "Nuclear Salsa of Death" and "Fire Breath."

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Incredible Edible Egg

Eggs-actly what you need if you're looking for egg recipes, nutrition and safety. And, of course, there's always the fact-filled "eggcyclopedia!"

Italian Cuisine Home Page

Recipes, class schedule and other links, courtesy of Chef Paolo Monti on the Italian Riviera.

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Kitchen Garden

For gardeners who love to cook and cooks who love to garden.

Kitchen Link

One woman's way of putting all the cookbooks of the Internet onto one shelf. Thousands and thousands of food- and cooking-related links.

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Martha Stewart

No official web site yet, but at least you can send her questions and comments via e-mail. It's a good thing!

Midwest Living Magazine

Recipes straight from the Heartland.

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Ragu

Mama's favorite recipes, plus some pretty entertaining stuff on the Old Country.

Reader's Digest: In the Kitchen

Very slow download time, but this web site is anything but a condensed version. Online cookbook has new recipes every week.

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Southern Living

Well-loved magazine provides an online "Foods & Hospitality" resource full of traditional Southern recipes as well as new cooking trends from this region.

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Texas Cooking

Recipes, features, interactive conferences, contests and Texas food festivals.

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Virtual Vineyards

Direct marketer of fine wines (and select foods and gifts) which makes shopping as easy and convenient as possible. In-depth information about the wines and the people who made them is presented in a comfortable and unintimidating way.

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Wine.com

Now you can visit the wine country as often as you like. Learn more about select wineries, merchants, forums, auctions, even real estate in Napa Valley!

Wine Spectator

A database of 55,000 wine reviews you can search by price, score, varietal and more. Plus chats, bulletin boards, travel ideas, weekly polls, a library (with FAQs) and -- for those of you who like to invest as well as ingest -- stock prices for wine and spirits companies.

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