Culinary Arts: Reference: Tools for Quick Look-Ups and Getting Started
Reference Books for Cooks
The Oxford Companion to Food
TX 349 .D38 1999 (ML, WO Reference)
Larousse Gastronomique
TX 349 .D38 1999 (ML Reference, WO)
The Food Chronology
TX355 .T72 1995 (WO Reference)
The Cambridge World History of Food
TX 353 .C255 2000 2 volumes (CM, ML Reference, WO Reference)
La Technique
TX651 .P464 1976 (ML Reference)
La Methode
TX651 .P466 1979 (ML)
The Professional Chef's Knife Kit
TX657.K54 C84 2000 (ML)
The Chef's Book of Formulas, Yields and Sizes
TX 820 .S355 1996 (ML)
Purchasing for Food Service Managers, 4th ed.
TX911.3.P8 W37 2000 (ML Reference)
Bowes and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used
TX 551 .B64 1998 (ML Reference)
Large Quantity Recipes
TX820 .T47 1989 (ML)
The Oxford Companion to Wine
TP548 .R6455 1994 (ML Reference)
The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide
TX951 .H54 1998 (ML)
The Encyclopedia of Beer
TP568 .E53 1995 (ML)
Herbs and Spices
TX 406 .N679 2002 (ML)
Cheeses of the World
TX382 .N36 1993 (ML Oversize)
Fruit: an illustrated history
QK98.15.A1 B53 2003 (ML Oversize)
Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable, and Local Food
HD 9005 .E645 2010 (ML)
Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food
TX370 .S63 2006 (ML)
Food, Feasts, and Faith: an encyclopedia of food culture in world religions.
BL65.F65 F54 2017 2 volumes (ML Refaerence)
eReference Books for Cooks
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- Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Britannica Online offers the 32 volume Encyclopaedia Britannica (updated every two weeks)
- The Year in Review
- World Data Analyst with statistics on every country
- An Internet Guide with sites selected and reviewed by Britannica's editors
- Timelines, a chronology tool
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus; World Atlas
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- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference provides access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology. Includes a spider map of related subjects
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window
Standard, academic reference sources on a variety of topics. Some sources in this collection are better for historic than for current information.
