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Home Ec & Life Skills.

All Crafts

  Hundreds of free projects, with links to craft book sites and other sites with lists of materials and step-by-step instructions.  
All Recipes.com

  More than 40,000 free recipes  
Baby Names and More

  Search for baby names using a variety of techniques--alphabetically, nationality, popularity and more.  
Calculation Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation

  Calculate how prices have changed over the years.  
Car Information: Digital Librarian's Cars

  The Digital Librarian has compiled an analphabetical list of sites pertaining to cars and other vehicles.  
Car Information: Edmund's

  Provides True Market Value  
Chocolate Exhibition

  Everything about chocolate, including Interactives: Manufacturing Chocolate from Seed to Sweet; The Chocolate Challenge and Cacao. Farm Chocolate and its national tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago.  
Christmas Cookies.com

  Hundreds of cookie recipes searchable by category, name, ingredient or popular collection, ie. Low Carb, Country of Origin, Top 25, etc.  
E-How

  Free membership--as of 2/2008--on "How To Do Just About Everything."  
Epicurious For People Who Eat

  Recipes for the food gourmet.  
Fashion: About.com - Fashion Directory

  Women's fashion and style including trends and designer biographies.  
Fashion: Costumer's Manifesto

  One of the most eclectic, costume sites; contains links to images--located in the ethnic dress and costumes sorted by periods.  
Fashion: Fashion Era

  Contains 670+ content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History.  
Federal Consumer Information Center

  One-stop source for answers to questions about consumer problems and government services. Consumers can get the information they need in three ways: by calling toll-free 1 (800) FED-INFO, through printed publications, or through information posted on FCIC  
Financial Football

  Visa and the National Football League have teamed up to help students across the country learn financial concepts - with Financial Football. Students tackle financial questions like professionals in this fast-paced, quiz-style game divides classrooms into two teams that compete by answering finance-themed questions to earn yardage and score touchdowns.  
Food and Nutrition Information Center

  The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) is a leader in on-line global nutrition information. Located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of USDA, the FNIC Web site contains over 2000 links to current and reliable nutrition information.  
Food Network

  TV's number one cooking site--contains recipes, programming schedule and other cooking/baking advice.  
Food Timeline/Culinary History Timeline

  Covers topics and recipes from the beginning of time to the present.  
HGTV

  Home and Garden Television provides designing and decorating tips for the home and garden.  
HGTV: 10 Steps to a Well-Designed Room

  How do designers get that "done" look? It all comes down to 10 essential steps. Take a look at "Design Secrets From the Pros"!  
HGTV: What's Your Design Style?

  Take the quiz and explore the sixteen most popular design styles.  
Historic Cuisines

  Google web directory of links for foods from history.  
International Food Information Council: Food Safety

  Nutrition and food safety information.  
Occupational Outlook Handbook

  Nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives-- revised every two years.  
Ohio State University Online: College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

  Contains helpful articles, factsheets and bulletins regarding yard and garden, food, community, home and family, business, youth, farm and environment.  
Planetware

  Pictures of cities and places to visit in countries of the world.  
Practical Money Skills for Life

  A free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life--curriculum based.  
Quilting: Quilting History

  Explore the history of quilting and the women who created so many quilts over the years.  
Quilting: World Wide Quilting Page

  Links to sites that cater to the quilter--from buying supplies to viewing of samples.  
Textile Dictionary

  Entries define and discuss the fibre, weave, characteristics and uses of cotton, wool, silk, specialty, plant, manmade and more--sponsored by the Fashion Internet Centre for Canadian Fashion and Fashion.  
Top 100 Wedding Sites

  Wedding planning resource featuring wedding sites that cover planning, favors, accessories, invitations, receptions, gowns and much more...  
University of Illinois: Hort Corner

  The University of Illinois Extension's guide to lawn care; fruit and veggies; flowers and ornamentals; pests and diseases; trees and shrubs, plus progamming to help the avid gardener.  
World Cuisines: Ethnic Cuisine/Sally's Place

  Premier Internet site for food, beverage and travel enthusiasts--includes extensive background and cultural information as it relates to the food and beverage of many countries.  
World Cuisines: Global Gourmet/Global Destinations

  Country profiles include links to recipes associated with that country's or region's cuisine.  
World Cuisines: Google Web Directory

  Web directory of sites with information on food from many cultures and countries.  
World Cuisines: Mrs. Salipante's Foreign Food Project

  Index of sites from Lakewood High School (Lakewood, OH) Family & Consumer Sciences- Gourmet Foods Class--includes images of prepared dishes from a number of countries.  
World Cuisines: Recipe Source

  Recipes primarily identified with an ethnic cuisine are broken down by region and ethnic group, while other recipes are categorized by the type of dish.  
World Cuisines: World Wide Gourmet

  A Taste of the World: discover the countries of the globe month by month and learn about their history and culinary traditions.