90 Places For Free Cooking, Food & Wine eBooks (& Recipes) Online

Introduction

This is a listing of 90 sites that legally offer free Cooking, Food & Wine ebooks, recipes onine and food blogs.

There is also a listing here of

• Places For Free Cooking, Food & Wine Audiobooks & Videos

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 714 Places For Free Books Online

• 168 Places For Free Audio Books Online

For a complete listing of the free ebook pages here at Gizmo's, see

• Millions of Free eBooks and Audio Books Online

There will be other books on Cooking, Food & Wine at the sites listed there, but they are not categorized at the sites.  There are also links to other genre pages at those sites.

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for children.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

 This page's listings can be accessed as follows:

• Cooking & Food eBooks

• Cooking & Food Recipe Sites

• Wine & Other Alcohol eBooks & Recipes

• Cooking & Food Blogs

Cooking & Food Free eBooks

2020k (CFW)  Large collection, nicely divided into sub-categories, available for download in a variety of formats.  Note:  Most of the links here are working, but there are a number that lead to BookRags, which are not free anymore.  Unfortunately, there is no way of telling where the link goes until you click the link.  Since they did fix the issue with archive.org links, hopefully they will fix this. Thanks to Marie99 for pointing this out.

Amazon This link is to the best sellers at Amazon in the Cooking, Food & Wine category, which also lists the top 100 free offerings in that category.  There are other free offerings at Amazon which would best be found using the information in the 74 Places For Free Kindle eBooks Online (Legally) page here at Gizmo's.

Antilope a poster at the cooking.com fora, jas put together a great list of links to cookbooks from the late 1800s and early 1900s.  The links go to a very nice read in your browser format and you can click there to go to Open Library (of Archive.org) to download in a wide variety of formats.

Archive.orghas a large collection of classic cookbooks available in its cookbooks and home economics section.  Download and viewing options vary, but most are available in a wide variety of formats.

AssociatedContent  has several cookbooks available for download in pdf.  Most are short and specific (muffin recipes etc.), but the Chocolate recipe book is over 600 pages and the Blue Ribbon recipes are over 400 pages.

Bargain Briana offers the free cookbook, Betty Crocker, Best of 2011, for free download in PDF without registration.

Bartleby  has the famous 1918 Fannie Farmer The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book available for online viewing.

BooksShouldBeFree  has 7 unique free cookbooks.  Although this is an audiobook site, there are links to text copies at gutenberg.

Bored.com (Cooking)  has 70 cookbooks available for online viewing.  Searchable by title.  Some interesting entries.

Bookyards (CFW)   23 interesting cookbooks available in pdf download.

Calibre Open Books has 2 free ecookbooks .  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.  These are recent works, not classics

Centsless Books monitors Amazon (USA) for the top 100 free ebooks in the Cooking, Food & Wine category.  Updated hourly.

ChestofBooks (Cooking)  Around 100 books available for online viewing.

Classicly has a large collection of classic cookbooks.  These are available for download in PDF or KINDLE.  Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.

CookingWithUs has a large and diverse collection of cookbooks available in PDF (zipped).  Also, a few cookbooks available in Kindle.

CreativeHomemaking  has a number of free cookbooks available for download in pdf.  Some interesting entries here, including "How to Make a Gingerbread House".

DailyLit has 7 free cookbooks available.  These are delivered in their usual method, chapter by chapter to your email.  These are recent cookbooks, including one by the now famous Emeril (who I met when I ate at his first restaurant shortly after it opened).

DigiLibrarieshas 106 free books in its cooking category.  Most are available for free reading online as well as free download in PDF, MOBI or EPUB.

DigitalBookIndex  links to a large collection of cookbooks and general cooking information.  Viewing and download options vary as these are links to various sites.

eBookCellar has nine free cookbooks available for download in PDF (zipped).  For some reason, you have to go through a few pages to get to the download, but there is no signup etc.

eBookDBhas around 150 free books in its cooking, food & health category.  Links are offsite so download and viewing options vary, but the ones I looked at were all available for free download in PDF.

eBook Junkie offers 30 free cookbooks for free download in PDF without registration.

eBooks@Adelaide has links to about 20 cookbooks dating from the 1600s to the 1900s.  An interesting and unusual collection.  Some are downloadable and available to read online, others are read online only.

e-booksdirectory has several interesting free cookbooks available for download in pdf (click on sub-categories on page).

eBooks Free Free Free monitors Amazon (USA) for the top free ebooks offerings int the Baking category..  Also monitors Cooking, Healthy Cooking and Natural Foods categories.

eBooks Free Net has 10 interesting cookbooks available for free download in PDF.

eBooks On Everything has 19 free cookbooks available for free download in PDF.

e-cookbooks.net has 14 smaller cookbooks available for free download in pdf.

EdenSong has 28 free cookbooks for free download in PDF without registration.

Feed eBookshas a good size colleciton of cook books available for free reading online.

FeedingAmerica offers an excellent collection of close to 80 cookbooks.  These are available for reading online or for download in PDF.  Thanks to Susan B for this suggestion.

FKB Monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook offerings in their Food category.  Note that if there are no free books in the food category, the site will list the general free offerings, so just go back to the older entries for the latest free food ebooks.

Freebook Sifter lists both recent limited time offers and always free ebooks from Amazon.  Ranks listings by average user rating.   This link is to the listings for Cooking, Food & Wine..  Thanks to Rob Schifreen of our site TSA for this link.

Free Books Hub UK monitors Amazon (UK) for limited time free ebook offerings with a Cooking tag..

Free eBooks Daily  monitors Amazon (USA, UK, CA) for limited time free ebook offeerings in their Cooking category.

Free eBooks.info (CFW) 18 books available for download in varying formats

Free Quick Recipes 3 cookbooks available for download in pdf and a large amount of recipes for online viewing as well as other information on kitchen and diet

Get Free Books (Cooking) This has grown to a large and interesting listing of cookbooks and bartending books.

Get Free PDFhas 3 free books in its cooking books category.  Despite the name of the site, download formats may vary.

Globusz (cooking) 6 cookbooks available for online viewing or download

GoogleBooks has a large number of free cookbooks under its "Cooking" category available for download in pdf.  There are about 400 listings all together under that category and about half are full cookbooks.

Gutenberg (Cookery) Large collection of cookbooks and other informative food books available for download in several formats.

HealthRecipes A good number of cookbooks available for download in pdf.  Scroll down the page as there are pay books at the top.

Hundred Zeros UK monitors Amazon (UK) for free ebooks in the Cooking & Food genre.

iLove eBooks monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook offerings in their Cooking category.

Internet Archive  has over 1300 free ebooks under its "Cookery" heading.  many are from the 1800s and while age has not much bearing on recipes, the books have an older view on a woman's place.

ManyBooks (Cooking) 145 cookbooks available for download in a variety of formats

MeatBook has an online cookbook image of the Ground Meat Cookbook available for online viewing.

Medieval Cookery In addition to offering a selection of medieval recipes, this site has a large listing of links to online medieval cookbooks.

MemoWare (Food and Nutrition) 272 works, including cookbooks and nutritional information available for download in varying formats.

Mr Food offers his free cookbook, Easy Weeknight Dinners:  20 Recipes For A Busy Cook, for free download in PDF.  There will be prompts to enter your email, but that is not necessary to download the ecookbook.  Also for free download in PDF is his Cheese Lovers eCookbook.

Nancy'sKitchen has a nice size collection of small cookbooks available for free download in pdf. 

obooko  offers 4 free cooking books by self publishing authors for download.  Free registration is required.

OpeneBooksLibrary has 10 free cookbooks available.  About half are from Gutenberg and have the usual wide variety of viewing and download options.  The other half are unique to this site and are available in PDF .

Open Library (Classic Cookbooks)  Antilope a poster at the cooking.com fora, has put together a great list of links to cookbooks from the late 1800s and early 1900s.  The links go to a read in your browser format.  In the upper left hand corner is a link to go to Open Library, where you will have the MOBI download and the Send To KIndle option mentioned above.  The forum site is no longer up, so this link now takes you to the Wayback Machine image of the page.  All links from the page are still working.  Thanks to Bast for the update on this site.

QuickFound has links to many and varied  free online cookbooks for viewing and for download in pdf.  Definitely worth checking out.

SifyBawarchi has 43 free cookbooks for primarily Indian but also Pakistani, Chinese and Malaysian cuisine.   These are available for free download in PDF.   The site also features a large collection of recipes with an intelligent search system.

Smashwords has about 25 original cookbooks.  These are available for download in a wide variety of formats, including KINDLE, EPUB and PDF among others, as well as for online viewing.

SparkPeople offers Chef Meg's cookbook for free download in PDF without registration.

StoneSoup offers a free cookbook of "minimalist" recipes, with 5 ingredients and less than 10 minutes to prepare, for free download in PDF without registration.

The Book Depository has 72 free ebooks in its Food & Drink category available for free download in PDF without registration.  You will see prices listed for each of the books, but that is for hard copy.  Look for the green Get Free eBook to click on and then the green Download Free eBook PDF on the book listing page.

Thousand Eggs provides  online links to historic cookbooks from the 1400s to the 1900s.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.

Vintage Cookbooks has links to, and downloads of, vintage cookbooks from around the web.  These range in date from the 1700s to 1939.  Some children and ethnic cookbooks are also offered.  Download options vary as some link offsite.

Vitalita The Vitalita Culinary Group is offering two free vegan cookbooks for download in text.  A Taste of Vitality and Desserts of Vitality include pictures of the finished dishes.

WikiSourcenice collection of cookbooks from the 19th century and early 20th century for free reading online.

Witguides (Cooking&Recipes) 32 cookbooks available for download in pdf (zipped).

Cooking & Food Free Recipe Sites

I was not originally going to list recipe sites, but a few visitors listed recipe sites in the comments and I thought I would start this section.  Only sites suggested by visitors will be listed here. 

AnnaMaria'sOpenKitchen is a site devoted to recipes for Italian cuisine.  Also, a nice listing of the best of various Italian food stuffs.  Suggested by Richey.

AsiaSociety has a good size collection of Asian recipes as well as information on Asiann cultures and travel information.

BBC Food  has a database of over 10,000 recipes that can be searched by recipe title, chef or program.  Also has feature of entering up to 3 ingredients for compatible recipes.  Suggested by Torresmagnifico.

CookBooks.com  supposedly has over 1 million recipes in its database that can be searched in every way imaginable, including ingredients.  The only problem is the number of hits you get, so you have to get pretty specific. Information provided by Phil.

EatingWell offers information and recipes on healthy eating.  They have a nice category listing, including vegetarian, children and drink recipes among others.  In spite of being healthy, the recipes look tasty.  Thanks to Mrs. J for this.

EllySaysOpa the very tempting recipes and and ramblings of a Greek cook who also offers Mexican/TexMex recipes.  Elly resides in my former home town of Chicago, where the Greeks are well known experts in the restaurant business.  Suggested by Midnight Cowboy, who says everything he has tried here has been excellent.

Epicurious  has a large database of recipes that can be browsed in a good variety of ways. 

Food.Com DDebbbie suggested this site and I am not sure how I could have missed it, given its name.  A large selection of recipes (over 450,000), with the option to create your own cookbook or read cookbooks created by others.

Foodista  bills itself as the food encyclopedia that everyone can edit..  This wiki approach has resulted in a large number of recipes available as well as other cooking and dining information. Suggested by mrsound.

FoodNetwork I found this site a bit difficult to get around and originally did not include it in my listing.  But when redforever suggested it, I realized that if you follow the food network, or one of its shows, you could get to something you want quickly.  So here it is thanks again to redforever.

GodeCookery is a medieval history website dedicated to the food & feasts of the Middle Ages & Renaissance. Here you will find information on medieval cooking, instructions for preparing authentic feasts, hundreds of recipes, image collections, a medieval cooking discussion group, graphics, photographs, and history resources.

MedievalCookery  offers a large selection of medieval recipes, information on spices for the period and where to get the spices as well as other general information on medieval cooking.  This site has a large listing of links to online medieval cookbooks. (See link above in cookbook section)

MidwestLiving  has recipes and, with registration, a place for you to create your own cookbook online.  Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

RecipeLand Another suggestion from DDebbbie and another nice find.  Large collection of recipes with the nice feature of sorting world cuisine by region and also a special diets section.

Cooking & Food Blogs

This section was inspired by and is a collection of sites from a post by redforever.  These first four sites cull recipes from a number of food blogs and present a picture of the final result.  If you like the picture, click on it and off you go to the recipe.  The fifth site is a search engine for recipes at 3000 blogs.  The final site is a blog that has the unique feature of video presentation of the recipes.

FoodGawker 2230 pages with about 50 pictures per page makes for a lot of temptation and recipes.

FoodPornDaily not as many pictures (recipes) at once, but a nice collection that I assume changes regularly.

PhotoGrazing another tempting site with a large collection.

TasteSpotting 3491 pages of pictures (recipes) and they throw some good looking desserts right up front.

FoodBlogSearch Just a plain site with a search engine that allows you to search for a recipe through 3000 food blogs.

FoodWishesVideoRecipes  a unique video presentation of some very unique recipes from Chef John.  His Mother's Day recipe is a "Potted Plant Ice Cream Cake".

Top Ten Food Blogs   A listing of the favorite food blogs of Rhiannon, a regular contributor here at TechSupportAlert.  Some good information in the comments also.

Wine & Other Alcohol

DrinkNation has a large database of alcoholic drinks that can be browsed in a variety of ways.  They also have a "Your Bar" feature where you enter all the drink ingredients that you have and it gives drink recipes for those that can be made from your bar.  This information can be saved there if you register.

QuickFound  has a large listing of  free books on wine available for download in pdf.

TheWebtender  has a good size database of alcoholic drinks that can be browsed, searched in various ways and they also have an "In My Bar" feature where you enter in all the ingredients that you have and it will list all the drinks that can be made from those ingredients.