Welcome to Cook's Compass Beta*

Cook's Compass is about the good food in your community, and how to find it. We’re committed to the idea that there’s more to food than the supermarket, and there’s more to cooking than the recipes you grew up with.

Our website is a collaborative resource that allows for the aggregation and sharing of information about interesting ingredients, the stores near you that carry them, and the recipes and cuisines that use them. We want to help you get off the beaten track and into a wider world of rare or local foods, and the people who provide them.

Based on reviews from people like you, Cook's Compass can guide you:

• From a ingredient, to local stores that stock it and recipes that use it.
• From a recipe to information about ingredients and places to find it.
• With user reviews and store-owner input about gourmet, regional or niche food markets in your local area.

* This is the Cook's Compass Beta version (that means we’re still testing the site). You’ll notice that some of our information is currently incomplete. We hope you’ll add your own contributions, to help us turn Cook's Compass into the exciting resource we know it will be.

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