For the Professional

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The Culinary Professional's Resource Center

Escoffier On-Line: Resources for professionals

FoodNet for food industry professionals.

FoodNet: info for the Canadian food industry

Institute of Food Science & Technology (UK qualifying body for food professionals)

Link Culinaire online services for chef's (prices, recipes, links...)

Interactive Sites

FoodWorld: meeting place for food professionals

WebFoodPros.com: a bboard system for professionals (bboards include educators, ACF stuff and catering)

The French Baker's Club: on-line baking know-how. (primarily in French)

Associations

The eGG's list of Associations & Organizations

National Restaurant Association

International Foodservice Manufacturers Association

American Culinary Federation: association of Cooks and Chefs

Grocery Manufacturers of America (organization led by the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies that make and market the world's best-known brands of food and consumer packaged goods)

ProVisions Online: directory of food service professionals

Jobs

Chef's Professional: resources for job seekers

Catering UK: events, jobs, ads, journals, products, companies....

Opus Executive Search: job recruitment for asian hotels

Escoffier Online: networking, jobs, education, industry...

Books & Magazines

Becoming a Chef: "one of the best books ever written about the back-of-the-house side of the restaurant business"

Foodservice and Hospitality Magazine

Hotelier: Canadian Hotel Industry

FoodChannel: articles on food trends, food industry, products & more.

Cameron Publications (marketing material for professionals)

Kostuch Publications (foodservice & hospitality publications)

Convenience Store News

FORUM On Small Food Manufacturing Businesses

NRN onLine foodservice news and information.

Consulting & Marketing

Jack Lewis & Associates restaurant consulting services

Alex & Assoc. Espresso Biz Consulting; consulting for those in the coffee business

BakeryNet: for those who have or want to open a bakery. Password required.

Producing Profitable Results: restaurant management services

Church Marketing Services

Chef's Express: WWW marketing for restaurants

TKB Associates restaurant consulting

Software

Costguard Software: food and recipe costing, inventory control, recipe maintenance and sales analysis

RapidFire Solutions: restaurant point-of-sale systems

A list of Foodservice software

Equipment

JP Food Services: food distributor

Robert Orr - SYSCO Food Services: food distributor

Reckitt & Colman: products for the Canadian foodservice

The Law

Official California Legislative Information:

Health and Safety

Food and Agriculture

Water

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Schools

Lists

The ShawGuides' Guide to Cooking : ~1000 associations, programs & courses around the world

Le Chef College of Hospitality Careers

How to find culinary schools (with phone numbers)

The Blue Directory's list of Food Science Schools & Associations

Professional Food Organizations

Yahoo's list of Culinary Vocational Schools

Individual Schools

Richardson Researches: courses on the technology of chocolate!!!

Tamara's Kitchen: Australian cooking school

French Culinary Institute

Seattle Central Community College

SPICE (california culinary academy)

The Pennsylvania Culinary Institute

The Culinary Institute of America

The Chef John Folse Culinary Institute

The Hospitality Business School at MSU

The Cordon Vert Cookery School (Vegetarian school in the U.K.)

Johnson & Wales University: hospitality university

Santa Rosa Junior College Culinary Training

Delaware Technical & Community College Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management

Newhaven University Hotel & Restaurant Management

Northeastern University Hotel & Restaurant Management

University of Guelph - The School of Hotel And Food Administration

Le Cordon Bleu Paris Cooking Schoo (Ottawa, Canada)