Links
Books
- “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug
Fun-to-read, easy-to-implement strategies for user-oriented web site design. - “On Food and Cooking” by Harold McGee
An indispensible resource detailing the hows and whys of cooking, at once literary and scientific. - “The Soul of a Chef” by Michael Ruhlman
Couldn’t put this book down; now I read it once a year — Ruhlman’s writing is fantastic. Detailed, passionate stories of great chefs and their distinctive journeys toward culinary perfection.
Cheesemaking
- “Home Cheese Making” by Ricki Carrol
Cheesemaking primer, modern but classic, nice line drawings. - “Making Great Cheese At Home” by Barbara Ciletti
Full-color book with lots of great pictures documenting the entire cheesemaking process. - “The Art of Making Cheese” by Rabbi Yitzchok Ort
A thorough article on kosher commercial cheese production. Includes details on lactic starters and rennet. - “The Gevinat Akum Prohibition” by Rabbi Chaim Jachter
Explores the historio-religious development of the prohibition against eating cheese produced without active Jewish involvement. Addresses the requirements of Jewish participation to make a kosher cheese, and the special classifications of soft cheese and - New England Cheesemaking Supply
Providers of hobbyist cheesemaking equipment and ingredients, including kosher rennet. - The Dairy Connection
Providers of hobbyist and commercial cheesemaking supplies, including kosher starter cultures (Ezal) and kosher rennet.
Technology
- Fusebox.org
A standard framework and methodology for writing web applications and managing web development projects. - Jakob Nielsen’s UseIt.com
Chock full of web usability strategies. - PS2PDF
Make an Adobe PDF from your PostScript file over the web. - Webmonkey
An oldie-but-goodie resource for web development - What the Font?
Upload an image of a font, and they’ll show you the closest match.