GourmetSleuth.com is dedicated to providing you with the best resource for cooking and gourmet food sites on the web.  Here is a list of our features with a brief description on how to use them.

Culinary Directory
There are two simple ways to search our site. The first, is to select from our list of pre-defined categories and the second is to type in a word, or words that describe what you are looking for.
For example.  Perhaps you want to see a list of sites about "cheese".  

• Search Predefined Categories
  Locate the word "Resources" on the left hand side of the gourmetsleuth.com home page.  The predefined categories are listed below.  Click on the word "Cheese".  This will link you to our subcategory page.  Then pick the subcategory that most closely fits the topic you'd like to research.  Once you click on the subcategory, the list of links will be displayed.

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  Type In Search  Words
  Locate the word "Resources" on the left hand side of the gourmetsleuth.com home page.  To the left of the "GO" button is a box.  Type in the word or words you wish to search on and click the "GO" button.  So, in our example you would type in the word "cheese" and click the "GO" button.   This process will search our entire database for any site whose title uses the word "cheese".  Once you click "GO"  the list of links will be displayed.
  
  *Note: the word or words you typed will be displayed at the top of the search page.   If  no links appear after your search, check to make sure you have typed your search words correctly.

• Search Examples
  Spinach and Artichoke Recipe
  If you are looking for a recipe that uses "spinach and atrichokes" simply omit the word "and" and type in (don't use the quotes) "spinach artichokes"   or you could type "spinach artichokes recipe".
  
  Information about lima beans
  Don't type in the word "information", simply type "lima beans".   If you are looking for food history, type, "lima beans history".  If you don't find what you are looking check your spelling.
  
  

Membership
You are not required to be a member of our site in order to use many of our sites features. We do encourage you to become a member so you may use our advanced features such as browsing our Ask Us question and answer files and our free "What's New" newsletter. There is no charge to become a member. Register now.

Ask Us
Our readers ask us food questions, cooking questions, and even questions about general household maintenance.  Each question is researched, answered and entered into our database.  This is an excellent resource for learning about foods, cooking tips and techniques. Members can browse our questions and answer file at any time. Members will be requested to sign in before they can browse our files.

What's New Newsletter?
We send out periodic announcements to members to let then know about what is new on our site. This includes links to recently added recipes as well as new site features.

Go Shopping
We maintain a catalog of interesting culinary items that are supportive to the information we provide. We specialize in items that are not readily available to most of our readers, things like molcajetes (Mexican stone, mortar and pestles), pot de creme cups and tortilla presses as well as other less common culinary tools.  Sometimes we carry an item just because we think it's a "real good" thing to have in the kitchen.  We hope you'll browse around and we're sure you'll find something you like. (Enter our shop)

Contact Us
If you have any questions about our site please contact us at any time.  A Contact Us link is located on the top navigation bar of each of our site pages. For more information see our Customer Service page.