RECIPE COLLECTIONS:

Lebanese recipes

Easy Arabic recipes, in English and Arabic

more than 50000 recipes, sorted in food and ethnic categories (i.e. Indian, Thai, …)

Huge recipe source

Egyptian recipes from Tour Egypt

Another recipe site that is huge

The best Recipe collection I (Doro) know, unfortunately only in German language: A real vast data bank of recipes without any advertisement, pictures or animation, so it is loading very fast. You can find exotic recipes as well as ‘grandmother’s basics’ for food processing, and general information about food groups.

DIVERSE:

Gernot Katzer’s Spice Pages: Listing for hundreds of spices and herbs for cooking, but also medical herbs, with a translation for each from English to more than 20 other languages (incl. Arabic, Russian, German, Italian, and much more)/

in German: http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/germ/spice_large.html#init_T

Spice Mixtures Index – description of different spice blends.