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BEERS, WINES & SPIRITS
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Virgin Wines make it easier to discover great wines than ever before: Buy a special mixed case, mix your own case of different wines, buy a case of a single wine. Our Customer Promise: If we recommend a wine and you don't like it, you don't pay. If you buy wine from us and find it cheaper elsewhere we'll refund the difference.
Decanter A site for buffs but certainly not wine bores. There are tips on wine-tasting, a guide on what types of wine go best with what types of food, advice on storing wine and specialist news such as harvest reports. delicate flavours then restaurant of the week recommends a suitable place.
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Chocolate seems to occupy a special place in the hearts of foodies so here is our special selection:
You can even send your own customised chocolate greeting!
www.ukfood.about.com A comprehensive site with recipes for all tastes and styles, a Spotlight section highlighting foodie occasions, and a Food Columns section with columnists from many of the UK's leading newspapers.
Top
Table Britain's largest restaurant booking and advisory service. Enter
the number of diners, where and when, type of cuisine and price range,
and Top Table will come up with the suggestions.
Grab a Meal
Grab a Meal lists over 23,000 restaurants and takeaways in the UK. Searchable
by food type, region, town and postcode.
SquareMeal
Despite the down to earth sounding name this site picks out the top restaurants,
using a variety of search categories.
The Fresh Food Co They claim
that you can buy everything that you would expect to find in an ordinary
supermarket, but all organic and wild harvested.
Graig Farm Graig,
in the heart of Wales, has been organic for 10 years and can claim to
be one of the pioneers of organic meats and other foods. The farm has
innumerable awards for the quality of its produce.
Organic Food As well as food
there are herbal remedies and 'ten reasons to...' if you're unsure about
going organic.
Organics Direct
This well-established site sells 450 certified organic products and delivers
anywhere on the UK mainland. Its wine and beer cellar boasts honeydew
ales and juniper green gin, and there's an organic baby food section.
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PORTALS & FOODIES
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Taste
Taste aims to inspire you to cook lip-smacking dishes that will go down
a treat with all of your family and friends. Put together by Sainsbury's,
it offers an impressive range, with ideas on eating out and eating in,tips
on a healthy diet, nutritional and weight-watching advice, and where to
buy a good cook book.
LeapingSalmon
Leaping Salmon deliver the ingredients of restaurant standard meals, complete
with instructions on how to cook them. Delivery is the same day in London
and next day nationwide, except for some remote areas. Exotic kits include
the likes of Moroccan Chermoula Marinated Dorade, and the meals are also
rated by how difficult they are to cook.
Chopstix The virtues
of Chinese food is the main message, but adding curry and spice it also
tackles wider aspects of Chinese culture. Divided into four sections,
ingredients, recipes, lifestyle & culture there is a wealth of information
on this site.
All
Recipes A vast user base sharing ideas creates a huge library of recipes,
all standardised to the same format. Also a Cooking Basics section which
includes cooking for children.
The
Alternative to Food and Drink The antidote to food snobbery for those
who like pot noodles and supermarket brand beer. Cheap, convenient, tasty
meals which fill a hole and an amiable disregard for the health food fad.
Bare Ingredients
Tasty and imaginative recipes and a useful search facility.
Cookery Online A
bright, breezy website that fills in the gaps of your cookery knowledge.
The Know How section covers method and kitchen organization among other
things, a news feed brings up-to-date articles.
Delia Online
Delia's diary and regular opportunities to chat online with her. Also
there's a cookery school with practical advice, and a keyword search to
find a dish for you among the 600 recipes on the site.
Epicuria
A gastronomic visit to France.
FoodFit Eating for
fitness. A Burner Calculator lets you know just how quickly you can shed
calories with a variety of exercises and everyday activities. Also a menu
planner and a questionnaire which determines your nutritional strengths
and weaknesses and gives advice on how to shape up.
Meals For You
Geared to finding solutions fast with six quick search sections: taste,
diet, time, nutrition, health and value.
My Meals A good
all-round site with a useful meal planner which helps you create a grocery
list
Passionate
About Food A recipes site but with articles on diets and healthy
living, an abundance of kitchen tips and a fine restaurant guide.
Recipe Center
100,000 plus recipes, and the clarity of cooking instructions is first
class. Many useful features, for example, recipes can be displayed in
printer friendly format, and can be emailed to a friend.
Recipe Web An
excellent website, ideal for non-fussy practical help. Top chefs Anton
Edelmann and Richard Coates contribute and you can exchange recipes with
other surfers.
Vegetarian
Kitchen Nava Atlas has a delightful site with a real personal touch,packed
full of excellent recipes such as Global Stew: detailed instructions on
cooking five different mouthwatering stews from Greece to Africa.
Vegetarian Society
An incredibly thorough site demonstrating that vegetarian food is not
boring. A New Veggies link has inspiration and answers on nutritional
aspects and relevant articles culled from the news. The site also explains
the significance of the V-sign - a trustworthy guarantee of vegetarian
suitability.