Thanks for these leads. I wasn't familiar with many of these. I have used www.foodtimeline.org, but have run into questions about accuracy when I've tried to verify a fact and so wondered about its reliability. Same with www.whatscookingamerica.net. I also like www.epicurious.com and the USDA site. I've had particular problems researching certain ethnic cuisines, in terms of trusting the sources' accuracy and reliability, that I've written about or wanted to write about. I've been unable to find much on Minahasan cooking and relied on sites by Indonesian restaurants and hotels, but this is a specialized topic. For Jamaican cooking I found www.jamaicans.com and some restaurant sites but wondered if there were reliable one-stop-shop reference sites. Do you rely on restaurant and other commercial sites when researching certain cuisines? I know many books that are reliable food resources, but am less familiar with Web sites. I wondered if any of the world food history or similar food dictionaries, like the ones referenced in Melissa's link, were available online by subscription, for example. The few I checked didn't seem to be. I hope this clarified my question and thanks for your help. A
