| Most home cooks at some time or another find | | | | know this recipe will work? Do you have any clue |
| themselves getting interested in ethnic cuisine. The | | | | what it tastes like? Do you maybe have a picture of |
| impetus might come from their heritage ... maybe | | | | what the finished dish should look like? |
| grandma was a German immigrant or grandpa came | | | | This is where sites that allow user reviews of recipes |
| from Vietnam. Or it could just be simple cook's | | | | are invaluable. We foodies are a verbose bunch, |
| curiosity. All of us get tired of cooking the same old | | | | forever ready to share good recipes and tips and |
| recipes over and over, and decide to move beyond, | | | | warn others away from the bad ones. On sites such |
| frequently into ethnic food recipes. | | | | as Allrecipes or Cooks.com, you'll find ethnic food |
| However, and this is especially important if you don't | | | | recipes with hundreds of reviews from users. Often, |
| already know anything about the particular cuisine | | | | these reviews will include possible ingredient |
| you're after, it can be hard to figure out if the recipes | | | | substitutions, problems inherent in the preparation and |
| you're cooking are authentic, or are even worth trying. | | | | possible solutions and all sorts of other great |
| You might pick an Asian recipe that sends you out | | | | information. It's very similar to having a kitchen full of |
| hunting exotic ingredients for three days only to find | | | | cooks ready to teach and advise you at all times. |
| that either the recipe was written poorly or the flavor | | | | While you might not want to trust just one or two |
| is something you just can't stomach. | | | | reviews, you can feel fairly safe when you see certain |
| Unless you want to sink a lot of money into | | | | ethnic food recipes have been cooked successfully by |
| cookbooks, your best source of recipe information is | | | | dozens of people. Pick the recipe, read the comments |
| going to be the Internet. However, searching for | | | | and forge ahead! |
| Internet recipes can be fraught with peril. How do you | | | | |