Here are some of my favorite places to get things for kitchen and cooking. Some are local (around Durham, North Carolina) and others are Internet sources. These are all suppliers that I’ve used and with whom I’ve been very pleased with service and quality of merchandise–I’ve no other connection with any of them other than that–no compensation, monetary or otherwise. See also Bibliography.
Cheese
General information on cheeses, as well as listings by name, country, type of milk use. etc.
Chocolate & cocoa
- The Chocolate News from The Meadow
- Wikipedia on Chocolate basics
- Why is Dark Chocolate Good for You? (Scientific American)
- Chocolate facts, terms, and definitions
- A Brief History of Chocolate (Smithsonian)
- Valrhona Chocolate
- Chuao Chocolatier
Gardening information
- The Garden Blog. Great gardening and landscaping blogs are listed here.
Grains & legumes
- How to Cook Whole Grains in a Rice Cooker, Chen, Jeanette on Williams-Sonoma Taste.
Herbs & spices
- Penzey’s Spices, local store and internet orders.
Meats and meat products
- Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop, Durham NC. Meats, including offal, lard, stock, and an awesome selection of sweets as well as meats.
- Meadow Lane Farms, Louisburg NC. Vendors at the Durham Farmers’ Market. Excellent meats, including offal. Beef, and they are doing more pork now too. That’s where I get my soup bones for beef stock!
- D’Artagnan I’ve used them for supplies for traditional cassoulet purchased individually as well as the “kit”.
- Two Bridges Farm, 17 Lloyds Way Louisburg NC 27549. Vendors at the Wake Forest Farmers’ Market. Goat meat, chickens.
- Turtle Mist Farm, 221 Suitt Road, Franklinton NC, 27525. (Phone 919.457-2942) Meats, eggs, poultry. Offer farm vacations as well. Vendors at Wake Forest Farmers Market
Pressure cooking
- Pressure cooking times from Hip Pressure Cooking, Laura Pazzaglia
Rice cooker
- How to Cook Whole Grains in a Rice Cooker, Chen, Jeanette on Williams-Sonoma Taste.
Salt
That ubiquitous ingredient, often maligned, but ever so useful.
- common table salt
- salt chemistry–What is salt?
- gourmet salt and sea salt
- Salt, we misjudged you (The New York Times)
- It’s Time to End the War on Salt (Scientific American)
- Kosher salt–Do I Need to Use Kosher Salt? (Serious Eats)
- The Meadow gourmet salt
- Mark Bitterman books: Salted, and Salt Block Cooking
- Salt News
Tea & Coffee
- Harney & Sons Fine Teas. Green, black, flavored, and herbal/tisanes. I particularly like being able to order samples of teas ($2.00) before committing to even 4 ounces of an expensive tea.
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