Where to Buy "Strange" Food Ingredient?

Sometimes when we want to try a new recipe, some food items are nowhere to find in our local grocery stores.  We can always fire up our web browsers and search them on the web. However, next time when we want to reorder the items, the web stores you had good business with somehow become a little difficult to find on the web. This post is a note for those food items. Now when I need them, I just come here.


Purple Sweet Potatoes

• Stokes Foods, Inc.
• Hawaii Veggie Farm

Soybeans

• Non-GMO Soybeans from Laura Soybeans (the Chambers Family Farm)

Coagulants for Making Tofu

• If you want to make Tofu, you can find a few different types of coagulants at myworldhut.com, e.g., Glucono delta-Lactone (GdL), Magnesium Chloride (Nigari), and Calcium Sulfate

Coagulants for Making Cheese

• These are from Professor David B. Fankhauser's Cheese Making pages. Find more his page on rennet.
• Rennet Tablets from JunketDesserts.com
• Rennet Tablets and Liquid from New England Cheese Making Supply Co.

Sausage Casing

• Hog Sausage Casing from Amazon.com

For Baking

• Potassium Bicarbonate from myworldhut.com

All About Food

This servers as a bookmark for various cooking shows, blogs, books and many others that I like. I will keep updating this post. 

Personality

• Mark Bittman 
• Alton Brown
• Jamie Oliver
• Jacques Pépin

Recipe Blogs & Sites

• The way the cookie crumbles
• Tatyana's Everyday Food 
• Culinary Secrets with Chef Tomm
• Chinese Hand Pulled Noodles  (See this without using an electrical mixer)
• Angie's Recipes
• Indian Vegetarian Recipes
• The Salt at NPR 
• Food52 
• Minimalist Baker

Media

• The New York Times Dining Section
• Recipe Lab
• Dinner Journal
• Food - Well Blog
• Recipe Search BETA
• The Wall Street Journal Food & Drink Section
• The Washington Post Food Section
• Beer Madness (2014, 2013, 2012) 
• Recipe Finder
• BBC Good Food
• BBC Food Section
• Quick Recipe Finder 
• Los Angles Times Food Section 
• Chicago Tribune Food Section
• Denver Post Food & Dining Section
• The Boston Globe Food & Dining Section
• Chow
• Recipes
• Serious Eats
• The Food Network
• PBS Food
• The Food and Wine (Time Inc.)
• Advanced Recipe Search
• Eater

Books

• Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop
• How to Cook Everything: 2000 Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
• How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman

Personal Website

• Cheese Making by Professor David B. Fankhauser