Monday, August 25, 2008
Food & Nutrition Sites Review (Nufail)
Same task for DCX130, website review! Here's the 1st website that i picked, and it's http://www.foodnetwork.com!/
The website has a nice green colour as its background, so it soothes the eye a little. The links have been categorized neatly, and like most recipe websites, having a search bar is a must!
There's alot of venues that you can explore in this website. What I absolutely love about this website is how there are videos from a large variety of cooking shows, and there's quite an archive for this! Well, judging from the name of the website, I'm sure you'd figure that out already. :D
So let me briefly go through the website and what I like about it.
First thing that I like about this is how they have a weekly update and as to how it changes regularly. So this keeps you wanting to come in more to check out for the regular updates happening.
Secondly, the layout is neat and easy to navigate. The different bars such as "Home", "Recipes & Cooking", "Holidays & Parties" and etc makes it easier to go to which category that you're specifically looking for. For example, when clicked on "Holidays & Parties, they've yet again neatly categorized it under the headings "Celebrations", "Seasonal" & "Special Occasion". Yet again, this makes it easy to search for whatever that you are looking for.
And then they have "Back To School", where there are a large variety of recipes to choose from, not only breakfast, but lunch and dinner as well. In addition, they've even included tips on how to prepare breakfast fast and such. They've even have short articles written by their in-house nutritionist.
In addition, the website also has a large recipe collection. You're definitely spoilt for choice if you can't decide what to cook. But the sections yet again makes it easier for you to choose if there's anything you need in specific.
And the last and most interesting part about this website is the "TV" section! They have videos from the TV shows that are available at the website. All you have to do is you can either select a TV show, or go by the episode that you're looking for. It's that easy! They even have TV shows from the popular chefs, for example, "Jamie at Home" and "Nigella Bites" just to name a few.
This here is the main page for "TV". The drop list to find a TV show and episode is to your left.
This here is Jamie's page. Currently, there are no videos as the current ones have yet to be uploaded. Unfortunately, old episodes cannot be detected. :(
There are also limitations to this page. For example, only 2 recipes from each episode will be available online. In addition, "access to recipes is limited to users within the United States."
What a bummer!
But at least they have more information about the chef, and the lingo he uses. So that adds a little more 'personalized'information about the chef.
To sum it up, I love this website as it contains a large variety of recipes. In addition, the neat layout and easy navigation is always a plus point. I would recommend this website for Food & Nutrition as it will be useful for the students if they need to find recipes for their coursework. There are also cooking tips that they can pick up for themselves. Despite the fact that past videos aren't easily available for viewing, they compensate that by giving the recipe. So it's not so bad. My rate? I'm giving this a 4 / 5!!!
Happy exploring to this website! Hope you like it as much as I do. (:
Labels: celebrity chefs, food and nutrition, recipes, tv
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