- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Good Web Guide Limited (25 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903282012
- ISBN-13: 978-1903282014
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 18 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,389,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jenni Muir's brisk, businesslike guide to serious food sites on the Web should prove invaluable to food lovers. Although relatively brief, it packs a lot of information into its 120-odd pages. It covers not only general food sites (such as those for Dean and Deluca, the great Manhattan food emporium, the Slow Food Society or the daily recipe service World Wide Recipes), but culinary stars (Raymond Blanc, Claire Macdonald and the food uber-tycoon Martha Stewart), restaurant guides, ingredients, world cuisine, vegetarian cookery, online shopping and, finally, a miscellany of sites concerned with food but otherwise uncategorisable. All the sites have been chosen primarily for quality, but also with other considerations such as ease of use in mind. A summary table for each gives key information: category (e.g. e-commerce or information), frequency of updating, and ratings for navigability, readability, reliability and overall site speed, together with an overall rating. Even this book's brief survey gives a clear idea of the sheer heady variety of information available. Moreover, it's encouraging to see that many of the best sites are not those run for profit, but maintained by enthusiasts keen to share their information and love of food. Jennni Muir concedes that to publish a guide to a medium as protean as the Web is like trying to catch water in a sieve: the book therefore includes a CD-ROM giving access to the Good Web Guide Web site, where regular updates are promised. At the time of reviewing, the site did little more than reproduce the contents of the book, but no doubt in time it will develop into a very useful resource. --Robin Davidson
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This guide contains reviews of over 100 websites which provide information about food and food-related subjects. It is aimed at everyone from accomplished cooks, restauranteurs and specialist retailers to those who are deeply frustrated by the confusion of material on the internet, much of which is misleading and uninformative. Areas covered include online restaurant guides, databases of recipes, information about exotic ingredients, nutrition and the ongoing GM food debate as well as where to meet fellow foodies online and foodie bulletin boards. The book also gives details of the recommended websites for food shopping, and where to buy organic and specialist foods easily and securely.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Thanks heavens for the Good Web Guide to Food.,
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This review is from: The Good Web Guide to Food (Hardcover)
Where would we be without this guide? It paves the way through the electronic maze of the Internet and gets you to the best sites fast. You need look no further. The Good Web Guide team have class. They know what to look for and they get the results for you. The website is good too.
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Great book. Well Worth a read.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Good Web Guide to Food (Hardcover)
If, like me you seem to spend hours on the web finding the simplest information then this book is for you. It is easy to use and well written and I am fascinated to find that unlike most internet help books this never dates! An everlasting book, with no coffee stains to worry about- well worth the money. Well done.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely splendid! Buy it at once!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Good Web Guide to Food (Hardcover)
This book introduced me to plenty of high-quality food sites - a lot of work has obviously gone into its research and the writing is also very authoratative and readable. Ms Muir is to be congratulated. This is an excellent book. Ignore working through the clutter of search engines and buy it at once.
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