Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Egg Substitutes
Egg allergies are not uncommon, therefore many egg substitutes are sold in order to bake, and cook recipes that call for them. In this science project idea, you'll investigate how to modify recipes so that even egg-allergic friends and...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Einstein's Legacy: Microwave Ovens
A series of pages that explain how microwave radiation is utilized by ovens to cook food. Includes several Java applets.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Heritage Gateways: Food
Click through eighteen pages of information about food and cooking as it was experienced by people traveling by wagon train to Utah, and as they began to settle into homesteads and communities. This site began as part of the 1997...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Food and Cooking Grocery List
Use this interactive activity to navigate the virtual store, reading labels and selecting items from the appropriate grocery aisles.
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Food Timeline: 19th Century American Foodways: Cowboy Cooking
Find some recipes for 19th century cowboy food, menu suggestions for creating cowboy cook-outs at the elementary, middle and high school levels, and many suggestions about other information sources.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Eat, Drink, & Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Pdf]
A booklet that accompanied a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in manuscript art from those times.
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Food Timeline: Westward Ho! Wagon Train Cookery
Get a realistic view of how pioneers in wagon trains kept, stored, and cooked food on their months-long journeys out west. Learn what kinds of food they took and how much it cost them.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry
A scientific approach to kitchen skills takes a look at the chemistry involved in preparing the food we eat.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1500s Food
View a series of extracts from sixteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people ate during Tudor times. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the period, including the foods eaten when...
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U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: Food Safety: Eggs and Egg Products
Describes the connection between eggs and salmonella poisoning, and overviews safe practices when handling, storing, cooking and eating eggs.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Use of Salt in Cooking (1) [Pdf]
Instructions for experiments to see whether cooking green beans in salted water improves their taste, texture, or color.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Processed Cheese
The goal of this cooking and food science fair project is to understand how processed cheese is made, and to determine which percentage of emulsifying salt produces the best processed cheese. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Recipe Book Family Activity
Use this recipe book based on the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali to get cooking with family and friends! Try out some of Molly's recipes and then write down your own recipes to add to her recipe book.
Lingolex
Lingolex.com: Spanish Food: Spanish English Bilingual Food Glossary
Are you hungry? Are you looking for some delicious Spanish recipes? You've come to the right place. Not only do you get a glossary of Spanish to English and English to Spanish words but you also get a few recipes with pictures.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: The Ediable Monument: Art of Food for Festivals
Ornate edible architecture and sculptures were often created for celebrations in the cities and courts of early modern Europe. The Edible Monument is an exhibition of the ephemeral art created for these festivals.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gel Well: Which Additives Make the Strongest Gelatin?
Gelatin. It's hard to think of another food that is used as frequently on the dinner table as off. You can find it in all sorts of sweet foods, from ice cream, yogurt, and gummy bears, to marshmallows and yellow colorings for sodas. Off...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Old Salty: Does Age Affect the Ability to Detect Salt?
Sauerkraut, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, kimchi, corned beef, processed cheeses, smoked lunch meats. Do you like these high-salt foods? What about your grandparents, do they? Do your grandparents seem to like most foods to be a bit...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Science of Pickles
What is pickling? What role does fermentation play in food? What is salt brine? Understand this and more at the Exploratorium.
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Elizabethan England Life: Elizabethan Era Foods and Recipes
Describes and lists some of the features common to Elizabethan era food habits and cooking methods.
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Saudi Aramco World: Cooking in Hunza
In northern Pakistan, in the high valley of Hunza, food practices have changed profoundly during the last 50 to 60 years. For decades, access to Hunza, in the heart of the Karakoram mountains (Western Himalayas), was quite difficult. But...
Curated OER
Medieval and Renaissance Food: Sources, Recipes, and Articles
A large collection of references for researching the types of food people ate in medieval and Renaissance times, and how they prepared it.
Other
Lo Mexicano: Spanish and Mexican Cooking Terms
More than just a translation of words, this site also gives explanations of just what a true "enchilada" or "gordita" is, for example. Great reference tool!
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Great Globs of Gluten! Which Wheat Flour Has the Most?
Close your eyes for a moment and think about your favorite cake, pasta, and crusty bread. OK, you can open your eyes now, and please don't drool on your computer. What was the cake you pictured like? Was it light and fluffy? Did you...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Let's Bake Granola!
A story about making granola. Includes audio narration in six additional languages with text in English.
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