Wap Review

The Food Network's mobile site is a searchable directory containing hundreds of recipes from it's shows, including ones by well known chefs like Bobby Flay. Source mobiThinking

CHOW is probably the largest and liveliest gourmet site on the mobile web. It's the mobilized version of the full web CHOW.com which was created in 2006 when CNET acquired the popular foodie message board Chowhound.com and the high end print magazine CHOW and combined them into online only CHOW.com

CHOW Mobile has lots of recipes, a directory of restaurants by region and read-only access to the regional forums of the Chowhound message boards.The boards are very active with lots questions and debates on topics like the best burger in Palo Alto or the ultimate Napa Valley wine tasting itinerary.

Much of the excellent editorial content of the full site is hidden behind the slow and quirky interface of the "Stories" section.  To get to the articles you pick a category from a dropdown, press a confusingly named "Search" button and wait. There are about 100 articles, columns, reviews and product comparisons divided into 20 categories. This portion of the site seems quite slow and some of the categories come up empty.

Mobile CHOW also has a selection of videos including cooking shows, chef interviews and tours. I wasn't able to watch any of the videos as the site insisted that my N95 "...does not support video". Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

A beautifully designed blog by a professional writer and cooking instructor, Diana Kuan covers the cuisines of China. It's full of recipes, restaurant reviews and reminisces of the author's experiences growing up in the kitchens of her family's restaurants. Mobile view by Mobify.

The mobile version of Serious Eats a multi author food blog featuring foodie talk and recipes. Source: Submitted by a reader, thanks Andrew

Sushis.mobi, winner of the Mobi of the Month Award at mobility.mobi includes an extensive descriptions of sushi varieties, videos showing how to make and eat sushi, listings of sushi books and collectables on eBay and a search engine for finding local Sushi bars.

A huge collection of recipes, over 38,000.  As the name implies, Spud Link is dedicated to the potato. However the recipe database is not restricted to spud dishes and includes recipes for every occasion. Source: Mobile Mammoth

Eat well for less with gourmet recipes from a student and a recently unemployed art historian. Source @andreatrasatti

Whole Foods Market's new mobile website features over 2,000 recipes, store information including hours, driving directions, store specials and a calendar of events for their local store. Whole Foods operates supermarkets in North America and the UK specializing in gourmet, natural and organic foods.

The iPhone has spawned a lot of new mobile web sites launching as "iPhone Applications". You can find a huge listing of these at iPhoneApplicationList.com. Many of these need the advanced JavaScript capabilities and 480px wide screen of the iPhone but a few like 101cookbooks will work on almost any phone. The site features a new recipe every few days with an archive organized by recipe types like Appetizers, Main Courses, Deserts, etc.

A large selection of simple recipes from Kraft.  This site seems to only work on a limited set of browsers.  I get a blank screen or unsupported device message with BlackBerries, phones with Openwave or Motorola browsers and older Nokia S40's!

Martha White is a Nashville, Tennessee flour mill whose products are marketed primarily in the U.S. Southern states. The company is noted for its long time support of Country and Bluegrass music. It has been a sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry since 1948 and has used well known performers including Flatt and Scruggs, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Allison Krauss in its ads and radio spots over the years.

Martha White recently launched this well designed mobile recipe site with over 80 recipes for classic Southern comfort food; muffins, biscuits and dressings made using Martha White's flours and corn meal. Each recipe is illustrated with a mouth watering photo of the finished product.

A collection of vegan and vegetarian recipes in blog format. Optimized for mobile using MobilePress.  Source Oh! Mobile Directory

International Recipes is a large recipe exchange group with reference articles, member-submitted recipes, a food dictionary and more.  The rather basic mobile site allows you to search for recipes by name or ingredient. You can also have any recipe sent to you in an email.

Lively food blog with lots of recipes, photos and discussions about food and cooking.  Mobile view by Mobify

Strictly for beef lovers, Beef.mobi has a large selection of recipes, beef industry news and videos of cattle. Source: Tappity

The I Love Mobile Web Awards were handed out at last month's Mobile Web Europe Conference in London.  The awards were sponsored by dotMobi and were judged by a panel of industry representatives. I generally agree with the panels choices, many of the winners were sites I've review favorably in the past including APNews, MocoSpace, Taptu, Kizoom and Zagat.

One winner that was new to me was Sasko Flour (saskoflour.mobi).  It's a recipe site from South African flour miller Sasko Flour and it took top honors in the Commerce & Retail division of the Awards.

The colorful recipe site, which was designed by the UK's Vizisoft Networks, is definitely visually striking with it's bold red color scheme and use of background textures. The site's content is a bit limited  though, consisting of a mere 22 recipies for breads, deserts and main dishes. Not surprisingly, all the recipes call for Sasko Flour. I'm sure you can use whatever brand of flour happens to be in your pantry.

Interestingly, considering that the contest was sponsored by dotMobi, the Sasko Flour won in spite of only managing a 3 out of 5 ("Fair") on the Ready.mobi test, dotMobi's automated checker for compliance with mobile best practices.  I think this points up the limitations of automated testing more than actual deficiencies with the site's usability or  compatibility with a variety of browsers.  Sasko Flour's page sizes are small and the site seems to work very well on my test phones including ones with the Openwave and Motorola MIB browsers, which are rather picky about markup errors and page weights.

Mobile online recipe database, searchable by ingredient or dish name. Recipes are very detailed and have reviews and star ratings. You can enter the desired number of servings and ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.

Extensive recipe site. Hundreds of recipes from around the world, organized by cuisine.

A new mobile site dedicated to bread making. It features a small database of bread recipes organized by type of flour and country of origin.