Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages document 117 spice plants with culinary use, history, chemistry, etymology, photographs, geography, botany, and more than 10,000 names across dozens of languages.
Taquitos.net began as a workplace chip obsession in 2000 and grew into a giant independent snack-review archive covering more than 12,000 products, thousands of companies, dozens of countries, and an absurd amount of potato-chip history.
MrBreakfast.com has been serving breakfast material since 2002, growing from recipes and articles into a sprawling specialist site with thousands of recipes and a giant historical breakfast-cereal database.
Subhuti Dharmananda's old ITM Online article on luo han guo became the kind of plain web reference that kept turning up years later in papers, reviews, and regulatory material about monk fruit.
Created on September 5, 1995, the Web's First Japanese Pizza Page documents a Tokyo neighborhood pizza menu with squid, octopus, tuna, mayonnaise, shiso, bamboo shoots, corn, boiled egg, and one author's increasingly concerned commentary.
Daniel Myers's MedievalCookery.com collects transcribed recipes, menus, cookbook statistics, Middle English cooking terms, source books, spices, fruit varieties, and practical reconstructions built from more than two decades of research.
The Kitchen Project's sauerkraut page mixes fermentation instructions, family food history and older Web publishing into a surprisingly deep document about preserved cabbage.