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CULINARY COLLECTION: HOME

INTRODUCTION

The Iva M. Freeman Library’s Culinary Collection accounts for 40% of the library's physical holdings, with an impressive collection of about 5,000 books covering the span of history, cooking techniques, and cook books representing almost every country, dietary specification, and gastronomical area of culinary pursuit.

CULINARY REFERENCE

CULINARY COURSE RESERVES

CULINARY JOURNALS

The library offers several leading print journals available for 5 day loans.

CIRCULATING BOOKS

LIBGUIDE TOOLS

These Guides were created specifically to support the Culinary Program!

CULINARY DATABASES

Food Science Source This link opens in a new window Food Science Source™ is an extensive full-text database designed to support the informational needs of the food industry at all levels. This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to the food industry. This database offers cover-to-cover full-text coverage for more than 1,400 publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications, all directly dealing with food industry-related issues. More than 1,000 key food industry and market reports are available.
Gale Culinary Arts Collection This link opens in a new window Culinary Arts Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition. The database includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Newspaper Database This link opens in a new window US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.

ADDITIONAL CULINARY RESOURCES

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project:
- "An online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century."
OCLC WorldCat Cookbook Finder:
- Find thousands of cookbooks in libraries all over the world.

COLLECTION

See the entire collection of Culinary textbooks and reference materials:

The Iva M. Freeman Library Online Catalog