readinglists

Food, Recipes, Sewing

Epicurious - A huge recipe database

International Recipes - World wide recipes, search by country.

Marlee's International Food Links - Links to sites with recipes, all arranged geographically.

Serves specials focusing on a specific cuisine, offering historical and cultural background with selected recipes.

Food Museum - "the one stop source for food exhibits, news/issues, resources, food history, answers to your food questions, book reviews and just plain fun."

Spice & Herb Encyclopedia - Use as encyclopedia or cookbook or both. Search by name of spice or herb, or by recipe type. It tells you where each spice is found, what it tastes like, and ways you might use it.

Recipe Conversion Calculators - Chef2Chef Conversion Center and Cooking Resources, links to lots of cooking calculators.

Clothing & Fashion

Regency Fashion Page - Costume History

Costume Gallery - "A Central Location on the Web for Fashion and Costume since 1996." Includes a textile reference manual, vintage photographs, selected years in fashion, a history of hairstyles, and more.

Bad Fads - Did ironed hair, platform shoes, pet rocks and goldfish swallowing EVER seem like a good idea at the time? A look at the more bizarre fashions, collectibles, activities, and events of the past 100 years.

The Costumer's Manifesto

Probably the best costume site on the web.

History of Fashion and Dress Main Page - This is an outline for a college course - really neat text and images in the weekly lessons.

The Costume Page - Over 2000 links to costume web sites.

History of Costume - Ancient costume guide. Scroll down to the graphic or text index links.

The Museum of Costume