General Background Information

Africa South of the Sahara

Culture Quest - IPL  Here is a general guide to the coutries of the world.

LANIC      This is an excellent site with an extensive coverage of politics, economics,
                  geography and tourism for  Latin American and Caribbean countries.
                  This is a highly recommended site.

Nations of the World  This site providesgeneral background information on the countries of the

 Lonely Planet   This is the web site of the Australian company which produces the
                         famous in-depth travel guides. The guides give cultural and historical
                         descriptions about all sorts of interesting topics.  Highly rated!

 CIA World Fact Book    The CIA has organized a detailed study of countries around the world.
                                        There are excellent maps and, if you click on "Country Listings,"
                                        you  will get precise, up-to-date information.  This is another
                                        great site.

General Cuisine Sites
 

About Directory   Enter the type of cuisine in the search area.  eg.  "Thai cuisine".  Be sure to put
                            quotation marks around your search terms.

Yahoo    This site gives you a list of countries.  Click on your choice to gather information.

Eat Ethnic

Specific Cuisine Sites

Asia Food

Australian Cooking

Caribbean Cooking

Creole and Cajun Cooking

Cuisine in China 

Search Engines by Country

Search Engine Colossus     Here you can go directly to search engines from the country of your
                                          choice.  Many of these engines are in English.