Cooks Dish Up Recipes for Distress

Whether you're looking to buy, cook, or just eat, the Internet has something for you

(NEWSER) - Aspiring foodies have thousands of resources available to them on the Internet, and Mashable lists 15 of the best sites for buying, cooking, and eating food:

• For locavores: Foodzie and Foodoro are online marketplaces for small, independent producers. Local Harvest connects users with farms in their area, while the Locavore iPhone app does the same thing on the go.

Rarely the same, but effort offers insight

(NEWSER) - Restaurant cookbooks allow you to tap into a chef's genius, but rarely do they yield perfect re-creations of beloved dishes, notes food writer Lauren Shockey for Slate. Shockey tries her hand at recipes from a couple of Manhattan's renowned restaurants— Shopsin's, Carmine's, and Chantarelle—and goes on-site for a taste comparison.

• Eat Me's recipe for Shopsin's "slutty cakes" (pancakes inspired by the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup) leave out the pistachio ingredient. Editorial oversight? "Or does Shopsin not want people to duplicate his recipes?" Shockey wonders.

It won't make coffee or dice, but can download recipes, call Mom

(NEWSER) - Forget about trying to buy newlyweds the ultimate kitchen appliance: They almost certainly already have two. For both everyday cooks and professional chefs, the cell phone has become the go-to gadget, the New York Times reports. What other tool could combine the functions of timer, measurement converter, recipe generator, shopping-list creator, expert-advice conduit, food-history resource, and camera? More»

Chefs, diners can't get enough of salty beef and pork salumi

(NEWSER) - Move over, fancy cheese, there's a new kid in town. Cured meat—salumi is the catchall term—is the latest foodie obsession, JJ Goode writes in Details. Salumi ranges from the familiar—think salami and prosciutto—to the more obscure like bresaola, cured beef made by artisans who "rub the lean hind legs of cows with salt and spices and age them in the Alpine breezes." More»

Putting toxin on salad not so good after all

(NEWSER) - A British celebrity chef has dished out a heartfelt apology for recommending in a magazine interview that readers use a poisonous plant that's "great on salads." He intended to push the wild herb fat hen, not henbane, which is a "very toxic plant and should never be eaten," the magazine has since warned. More»