Recipe Search Engines  

 Rob's Recipe Meta-Search 

Over 25 of the best recipe sites on the web. Search them all at EzyRecipes.com, or with this search box:

• Works best if you search for either a recipe name (chocolate fudge cake) or multiple likely ingredients (butter mushrooms parsley)

 Recipe Center 

Recipe Center
Has over 100,000 recipes, and the search engine works well

 Chef 2 Chef 

Chef2Chef.com
An extraordinary 280,000 recipes.

 Search.com 

Search.com

Meta-search for recipes from IChef (30,000), Recipeland (48,000), Epicurious (11,000), Martha Stewart & VegWeb.

• An very advanced Epicurious search can be found at their site

 All Recipes 

All Recipes
Huge database - over 20,000 recipes. Their web site features shopping coupons, plus a cookbook containing 300 recipes which were selected as America's best.

 Recipe Source 

Recipe Source
Previously known as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes - now contains over 70,000 recipes

 iChef 

iChef
Has at least 18,000 recipes (I did a search for "salt")

 Recipezaar 

Recipezaar
Has 75,000 recipes, with nutritional facts and other in-depth info. There's an advanced search

 International Recipes Online 

They have a very advanced search form for the brave

 Recipe Archive 

A collection of 3600 recipes from the newsgroup rec.food.recipes. The search form is best for ingredient keywords, rather than names of dishes.  Browse here

 Yum Yum 

Over 20,000 recipes. Be smart and use more than one keyword if possible.

 More Resources 

• RecipeLand - 50,000 recipes from all over the world
• Food Network - cable channel with almost 5000 recipes
• Meals for You - 8,000 recipes, savory focus
• Cooking Light - 3,500 recipes, the emphasis is on saving time and calories
• Cuisine - 1500 fancy recipes from New Zealand
• Top Secret Recipes - creating kitchen clones of America's favorite brand-name foods. CopyKat is similar

• Khanakhazana - focuses on Indian Cuisine
• Chinese Food DIY - focuses on Chinese dishes - over 500 recipes, plus photos and tips
• Eat Chicken - Americans eat more chicken than anyone else. Hundreds of chicken recipes
• Russian Foods - recipes and specialist products
• More Recipe Sites & Even More Recipe Sites

• Cook's Thesaurus
• Herb & Spice Encyclopedia
• Food Reference - 6,000 pages, includes food history and usage; short food facts and trivia; quotes; who’s who in food; cooking tips; culinary humor, poems & crossword puzzles, and a Culinary Calendar.
• What We Eat - portal for recipes, ingredients and purchasing ready-made dishes.
• Nutrition.gov - all the official info on healthy eating

• Restaurant Row - menus, reviews and reservations, 165,000 restaurants in over 13,000 cities
• Snack reviews: chips, pretzels, popcorn