Free Recipes and More...

Once you begin your free subscription you'll receive a free recipe every weekday. Every week's recipes are based around a theme comprising a complete menu designed to provide a balanced and harmonious assortment of dishes made from fresh, healthy ingredients. Past themes have included ethnic and regional cuisine, low-fat cooking, vegetarian dishes, quick and easy meals, holiday recipes... you name it, we've done it.  Here's what you'll receive:

Monday- "Starter" recipes include appetizers, canapés, and first courses.
Tuesday-"Soups & Salads" range from simple to elegant.
Wednesday-"Sides" include vegetable, rice, potato, and pasta dishes.
Thursday-"Entrées" feature the main course of the week.
Friday-"Desserts" with the emphasis on light and healthy.

Other features in every issue of Worldwide Recipes include a Food Funny, a Kitchen Tip, the Bulletin Board where readers can post messages to their fellow readers, and The Last Morsel, an always entertaining tidbit of food lore.

Finally, there's "A Word from the Chef," and you never know what's going to happen there. Click on the links below to read some of my more popular essays.

All About Water
All About Salt
All About Sugar
All About Dietary Fiber

About "The Chef"

Joe Barkson has been writing and publishing the internet's most popular recipezine as The Chef at Worldwide Recipes since January, 1998. He came to food writing relatively late in life, following checkered careers in computer marketing, graphic design, and teaching high school Spanish. A lifelong interest in food and cooking ("I've been eating since I was a baby," he is fond of saying) was nurtured by extensive international traveling during his formative years, thanks to his father's career with IBM, and this accounts for the emphasis on world cuisine in his choice of themes for the recipezine. Twice married and twice divorced, he is the proud father of two adult sons who share his interest in food but somehow avoided inheriting his legendary ability to take numerous daily naps. He currently lives in Monticello, Georgia with his mother and a hyperkinetic schipperke that answers to Cooky when the mood strikes him.