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This is a guide to resources on food, ethnic cooking recipes, and menu planning. These resources include books, magazines and journals, and Web sites.
Larousse Gastronomique: The New American Edition of the World’s Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia
A compilation of international culinary terms, recipes, illustrations, biographies. Includes recipe index.
REF TX 349 .M613
The Oxford Companion to Food
Entries include food descriptions, terms, history, methods of preparation. Bibliography and index.
REF TX 349 .D36
The Cambridge World History of Food
This extensive two-volume set encapsulates much of what is known about food and nutrition from prehistory to the present. Chapters address nutritional aspects of groups of foods, worldwide culinary history, and nutritional deficiencies. Each essay is accompanied by bibliographical references.
REF TX 353 .C255 (2 vols.)
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
A four-volume compilation of cultural descriptions grouped by geographical area: Volume I-Africa; Volume II-Americas; Volume III-Asia and Oceania; Volume IV-Europe. Each entry
includes a Food heading, which briefly describes favorite menu items, meal times, and cultural customs surrounding food. A master Country Index is included at the front of each volume.
REF GN 333 .W67 (4 vols.)
Find additional titles in the online catalog LINCC using the “Subject Browse” option, and the following subject terms:
Cookery (locates “See also” references from
Appetizers to Vegetarian Cookery)
Cookery (type) Example: Cookery French;
Browsing the Shelves
Relevant titles may be located on both floors of the library within the following ranges of call numbers:
TX 341-TX 641 Nutrition. Food and food supply.
TX 643-TX 840 Cookery.
TX 901-TX 953 Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service.
MAGAZINE/JOURNAL TITLES (Available in the Reference Department of the LRC)
Bon Appetit
Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administrative Quarterly
Food Management
Journal of the American Dietetic Association
Nation’s Restaurant News
Restaurant Business
Restaurant Hospitality
Restaurants & Institutions
Online databases allow electronic access to organized collections of information. Many online subscription databases index articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Begin your search for articles with the following databases:
Academic Search Elite
Indexes and abstracts 3,000 journals and magazines, and provides full text access to over 1,200 of these. Tip sheet available in Reference and online.
PA Research II - Periodicals
Indexes and abstracts approximately 2,000 journals and magazines and provides full-text access for more than half of these. Covers 1986 to the present. Access PA Research II from the LRC homepage. To restrict your search to peer-reviewed journals, click on the box Show peer reviewed articles from the Basic, Advanced or Guided search screen. Guided search allows the most options.
Available on campus without PJC ID login. Tip sheet available in Reference and online.
Yahoo
www.yahoo.com
Click on the Society & Culture category>then Food and Drink>then Countries and Cultures for information on ethnic cooking. You can also use the search box to create your own search.
The Global Gourmet
www.globalgourmet.com
Check out the Global Destinations link from the home page.
Healthy Diet Pyramids
www.oldwayspt.org/html/pyramid.htm
Provides access to food guides developed from traditional cultural diets from around the world.
The Kitchen Link
www.kitchenlink.com
The drop down menu in the Board Topics box includes Ethnic Recipes.
Mimi’s Cyber Kitchen
www.cyber-kitchen.com
Click on How to Find Food on the Web. Scroll down the page and click on Mimi’s Food Links and then click on Ethnic & Regional Foods to see a list of rated Web sites relating to each ethnic food category.
Recipe Source
www.recipesource.com
Over 70,000 recipes indexed. Scroll down the page to view “Ethnic cuisines by region.”
Sally's Place
www.bpe.com
Check out the Ethnic Cuisine section under Food.