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Every Friday, Linkfest brings you a collection of useful sites on a topic I know very little about (until I visited the links, anyway…). This week: cookery!

My new flatmate is a recent graduate, and it shows. His shelves are full of dried pasta, tinned beans, tuna cans and cereal; every meal he prepares has ’student’ written right through it, and it’s clear he’s not quite out of the live-for-a-week-on-a-tenner mindset. When you’ve got some time in the evening to (you’re not going to the pub right after dinner) and the money to invest a little in good staples (your housemates won’t steal them), what excuse is there not to learn to cook?

So, without further ado, some links for anyone in the same boat:

• Ask Metafilter: What’s your most useful general advice on cooking? (wise words from the hive)
• Ask Metafilter: How do I grocery shop and cook? (shopping’s just as important)
  
• Edinburgh School of Food and Wine (cookery courses)
• How to Cook without a Book (ironically, it’s a book)
• Abel & Cole (yummy organic food delivered, and plenty of recipes)
• BBC iPlayer: Food and Drink (you’d be surprised how much you can learn from TV)
• RecipeMatcher (enter what you have, and it shows you matches; or simply google a few ingredients + ‘recipes’)
• Cooking Guide [DS] (make cookery a game)
• Cheap as Chips, Better than Toast (a transition from student cooking to more ‘real’ cooking)

A wide variety of information that has left me, for one, more educated in the culinary arts. (And hungry!)