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Encyclopedias and DictionariesA brief list, more can be found in the guide for Gastronomy Essential General starting pointsStart with these for definitions, background information and,
often, further references. Oxford companion to American food and drink, ed. A. F. Smith, 2007. Oxford companion to Italian food, 2008 Another good trick is to look up your food or concept in the
Oxford English Dictionary online The recipe writer's handbook, Barbara Gibbs
Ostmann, 2001. Culinary
Quotations BibliographiesThese are ready-made lists of references to books, book chapters and journal articles. Food and drink in literature : a selectively annotated bibliography, by Norman Kiell, 1995. WORLD FOOD HABITS BIBLIOGRAPHY: English-language resources for the anthropological study of food. Web resourcesLe Cordon BleuProspect Bookshop (UK) Food Museum - not just history - see their food issues BBC Food pages and Factual: the food programme from BBC Radio 4. Chef Talk! A food lover's link to professional chefs Meaning of
food - from PBS and for a bit of fun........ Blogs and NewsgroupsFoodblog is a food blog and has links to other food blogs Edible San Francisco also has lists of newspaper food sections, food publications, food sites and blogs HistoricalRachel Laudan - click on How to do food historyUniversity of Adelaide's Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink RecipesEpicuriousRegionalSouth Australian Food Centre
Key ingredients:
American by food Bon Appetit - a celebration of Canadian food Databases for journal articlesThese will provide you with references on a particular topic.Some have links to full text. For the others you will have to search for the journal title in the catalogue. The key interdisciplinary ones are listed here. Full list in the Gastronomy guide. InterdisciplinaryAcademic OneFile Academic Search Premier JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of elected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago. Regional databasesAustralia Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT. Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Asia Databases for newspaper articlesUse Factiva, a large international full text news database. See also the Library's guide to Finding journal locationsFor Australian holdings of journals, search SIAL: Serials in Australian Libraries For those of you in the UK, try Worldcat for America and beyond. E - journalsThe library provides access to many electronic journals. Some are free, some are on publishes' websites and some are full-text in aggregated databases. Their titles are listed in the catalogue and links are provided. Authentication for remote users is by university username and password.eg A search of the catalogue using the keyword "hospitality" or subject heading "food" and limiting to electronic resources turns up some very useful titles. eg via the catalogue: International journal of contemporary hospitality management 1994-
British Food Journal Gastronomica v 2.1- 2002- Finding booksUsing the Library catalogueThese terms will help you to search in our library catalogue, or in that of any other library.Use Basic Search for simple searches of title, journal title and simple topics. Guided keyword search is better for more complex subjects. Where electronic versions of journals, articles or books exist, our catalogue will link directly to them. You can limit your search to only electronic resources if you are working remotely. Typical subject headings and terms that you can use in any keyword or subject heading: Gastronomy Gastronomy in literature. Cookery in literature Food in literature Food habits in literature Dinners and dining in literature Hunger in literature Food Literary collections Food habits Literary collections Gastronomy Literary collections Eating disorders in literature Catalogues elsewhereStudents in Adelaide are able to borrow from any of the libraries of the three universities using their University of Adelaide student card. You can search across the three catalogues using the other catalogues option at the top of the catalogue screen.You may be near another large library which may have resources for you. Within Australia there is University Library Australia which enables you to register at another university library. Our web page provides a gateway to other libraries' catalogues, which includes access to the National Bbibliographic database, Libraries Australia(Kinetica), with holdings from libraries all over Australia. For those of you in Sydney, the library at University of NSW has a good gastronomy collection. Worldcat for America and beyond. Copac for major British libraries. or look at Other Library Catalogues Google Book Search will take you to some digitised books or, from the page that tells you "about this book", links you to a library catalogue or bookshop near you. For second hand books try: Book reviewsThere is a guide to book reviews.Many reviews appear in the databases for journal articles and there is also Book Review Index 1965- |
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