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Internet Links about American Ethnic Cooking

Student Pages with Ethnic Recipes
  • 1995 and 1996 literacy program recipes gathered by the US Outreach Technical Assistance Network, including a New York elementary school, and adult literacy projects for recent immigrants from Southeast Asia and Central America.
  • 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2002 recipes from similar projects, also gathered by OTAN.
  • Turtle Tracks (Canku Ota) online magazine for Native American youth, with a recipe in every issue.
  • Mary Gunderson's www.historycooks.com site is mostly about American food history for students as presented in her many books, but has a free classroom lesson in making Plains Indian pemmican, and some recipes suitable for students showing what Lewis & Clark learned from Mandan and Hidatsa people..
What's Here?
Student Pages
Multi-Ethnic sites
Sites by Ethnic Group
Sites in Modern Languages
(Spanish, so far)

Multi-Ethnic Recipe Sites

  • Archive of ethnic recipes posted on rec.food.recipes -- most by non-members of the ethnic group, but a good back-up.
  • Hawaiian Electric Company's archive of demonstrations by ethnic cooks, broadcast since 1995 as The Electric Kitchen on TV.
  • Native American pages by the late Paula Giese, an Ojibway woman who collected recipes and other cultural material from her own and other traditions.
  • Native American recipe exchange on Native Tech Web Pages.
  • One Million Plus Recipes Database, from Fundcraft, Inc., the largest publisher of community and church cookbooks. (Brief registration required.) Unfortunately the recipes do not indicate their origin, but the database is searchable, and very useful for comparing multiple versions of a recipe like "Welsh Cakes" if you have collected one.
  • Rec.food.recipes archive by Arielle's Recipe Archives, relatively few by ethnic group members, but strong on obscure ethnic groups.
  • Recipe links from the Three Rivers Free Net in Pittsburgh. Especially strong on Eastern European immigrant groups, but they are always adding personal web pages with recipes from all over.
Specific Ethnic Groups: Modern Language Resources

Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 by Mark H. Zanger. Remember, there is no copyright on recipes or other common household formulae, but copyright and fair use laws do apply to selection of recipes and cultural-historical commentary.