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Street of the Booksellers
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Food history
You don't know what beauty is till you've seen Gastronomica, the journal of food and culture
Prospect
Books specialize in food history and publish the journal Petits Propos Culinaires
Alternative link to Prospect Books
The new Turkish food history magazine, Yemek ve Kültür Dergisi
Buckley's Food History Links and Documents
Links about specific foods A to Z
Historical cookery
The Apicius group, which shares experiences on ancient food, eespecially Roman
Ivan Day's Historic Food.
There's information here on his Period Cookery Courses; also about the annual Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions
Cariadoc and Elizabeth's Recreational Medievalism
with
Janet Hinson's translation of Le Ménagier de Paris,
Elizabeth's translation of Maistre Chiquart's Du Fait de Cuisine,
Valoise Armstrong's translation of Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin and
Charles Perry's translation of an anonymous Andalusian cookbook of the 13th century
Cindy Renfrow works on historic recipe books
The Waks Family Cookbook
which generously includes a complete transcript of
A Booke of Cookrye (1591)
Finding list of early cookery and food texts
Language and language history
Two magazines about languages: The Linguist and Translating Today
The Language Hat, a language blog
African linguistics on the Internet
ILCAA, the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
Language disappearance
Links about specific languages A to Z
Library Catalogues
Places
Almost as good as being in Paris: reading about it in David Downie's Paris, Paris with photographs by Alison Harris
On Paros the best breakfasts are at the Marina Cafe
Plants and animals, especially edible and medicinal
Ben Sharvy's Edible landscaping and gardening
Henriette's Herbal Homepage
with
King's American Dispensatory and
J. U. Lloyd's History of the vegetable drugs (1911)
Jules Janick's lecture series, History of horticulture
Mrs Grieve, The Modern Herbal
Dan Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany, a database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American peoples, derived from plants
Erowid Psychoactive Plants Database
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
Life Sciences cross-database search
ITIS [Integrated Taxonomic Information System]: taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world
Fishbase: 29000 species, 209800 common names, 40100 pictures
Master Index of Freshwater Fishes
Enviroweb world species list
Spices
Words
Links to online dictionaries, Plant, animal and food glossaries and Glossaries of sex words and obscenities
Ask a Linguist questions and answers
Linguist List home page
World Wide Words by Michael Quinion
A word a day from wordsmith.org, founded by Anu Garg
Merriam-Webster's word of the day
Vocabula Review (good words cost good money)
Evan Morris's Word Detective
The alt-usage-english Usenet newsgroup
Luciferous Logolepsy: Dragging obscure words into the light of day
Richard Lederer's Verbivore Page
Judi Wolinsky's Word Play site list
Word origins
Word Wizard: for lovers of the English language
Dave Wilton's Etymology Page
Webrings
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