Food

Recipes, nutrition tools, and the sites that make eating better easy.

Recipes & Cooking

Serious Eats—The most reliable recipe site on the internet. Every recipe is tested rigorously.Recommended
Budget Bytes—Excellent, affordable recipes with actual cost breakdowns. Practical and delicious.
SuperCook—Enter ingredients you have, get recipes that use them. Cuts food waste perfectly.Recommended
BBC Good Food—Trusted UK recipe source. Reliable, well-tested, and with great seasonal ideas.

Nutrition & Discovery

NutritionValue—Detailed nutritional breakdown of any food. Clean, no-nonsense interface.
TasteAtlas—Map of traditional dishes from every country. Brilliant for travel food planning.

Cooking Techniques

ChefSteps—Sous vide and precision cooking guides from actual chefs. Elevated but approachable.Hidden Gem
Cooking for Engineers—Recipes broken down with the logic and precision of an engineer. Oddly satisfying.Hidden Gem
PepperScale—Everything about chillies — heat levels, flavour profiles, and which to use when.

Food Culture & Exploration

Eater—Food and restaurant culture journalism. Where serious food people get their news.
Edible Geography—Essays on the intersection of food, landscape, and culture. Beautifully written.Hidden Gem
Atlas Obscura Foods—The strangest and most fascinating foods from every corner of the world.Hidden Gem
RecipeTin Eats—Recipes that genuinely work first time. Better tested than most food blogs.

Drinks & Cocktails

Difford's Guide—The most comprehensive cocktail and spirits database online. Over 7,000 recipes.Hidden Gem
Punch—Serious drinks journalism and cocktail recipes. The food media equivalent for alcohol.Hidden Gem
TheCocktailDB—Open database of cocktail recipes with images and ingredient lists. Free API too.Hidden Gem
Master of Malt—Whisky, gin, and spirits retailer with exceptional tasting notes and reviews.

Food Science & Niche

Modernist Cuisine—The definitive resource for scientific and avant-garde cooking. Mind-bending content.Hidden Gem
The Spruce Eats—Reliable, well-tested recipes across every cuisine. Often overlooked vs BBC Good Food.
Food52—Community-driven recipes plus beautiful kitchen and home goods shop.
Milk Street—Christopher Kimball's global cooking school. Techniques from every food culture.Hidden Gem

Restaurant & Dining

OpenTable—Restaurant reservations across thousands of restaurants globally. Often has last-minute slots.
TheFork—Restaurant discovery and booking across Europe. Frequently offers discounts.
Michelin Guide—The official Michelin guide online. Find starred restaurants near anywhere in the world.Hidden Gem

Meal Planning

Mealime—Meal planning app that generates a shopping list from your weekly recipes.Hidden Gem
Yummly—Personalised recipe recommendations based on your dietary preferences.
Eat This Much—Automatically generate meal plans based on calorie goals and food preferences.Hidden Gem

Coffee & Tea

Home Barista—Deep forum and guides for home espresso enthusiasts. Surprisingly deep community.Hidden Gem
Steepster—Tea discovery and rating platform. Find your next favourite tea.Hidden Gem

Global Cuisines

196 Flavors—A recipe from every country in the world. Fascinating cultural food history included.Hidden Gem
Hungry Huy—Vietnamese-American recipes that are genuinely authentic and well-explained.Hidden Gem
Mexican Please—Deep dives into Mexican cuisine with proper technique explanations.Hidden Gem
Just One Cookbook—Japanese home cooking explained perfectly for non-Japanese cooks.Hidden Gem
Olive Magazine—British food magazine with reliable, tested recipes and restaurant guides.

Speciality & Dietary

Minimalist Baker—Recipes with 10 ingredients or less. Mostly plant-based, always delicious.
SkinnyTaste—Lower-calorie versions of comfort food that actually taste good.
The Kitchn—Practical cooking advice, technique guides, and kitchen equipment reviews.
Cookie and Kate—Vegetarian recipes that don't feel like compromises. Beautiful photography too.Hidden Gem
Half Baked Harvest—Ambitious, seasonal recipes for when you want to actually cook something impressive.Hidden Gem

Food Science & Fermentation

Wild Fermentation—Sandor Katz's definitive resource on fermentation. The bible of the craft.Hidden Gem
Cultures for Health—Everything about fermenting at home — kombucha, kefir, sourdough, kimchi.Hidden Gem
Breadtopia—Sourdough and artisan bread baking guides with video walkthroughs.Hidden Gem