Guide to Food
Websites:
El Centro Course-Related Links | Specialized Web Sites | Comprehensive Web Sites | AssociationsBar & Beverage | Wine
Equipment | News & Magazines | Nutrition
Recipes | Restaurants
Books:
Suggested Subjects Headings | Recommended Reference Books
Databases
- Business Source Complete (can be searched simultaneously with Academic Source Complete and Regional Business News)
- Regional Business News (can be searched simultaneously with Business Source Complete and Academic Search Complete)
- Academic Search Complete (can be searched simultaneously with Business Source Complete and Regional Business News)
- Thomas Register of Manufacturers
- Wall Street Journal/New York Times
- InfoTrac Newspapers
- LexisNexis
Check the Periodicals Guide to insure that the Library subscribes to the print journal you need. Request journals at the Circulation Counter.
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El Centro Course-Related Links
- El Centro Food Service Department
- Texas Workforce Laws
- Texas Labor Law Info
- Minimum Wage Laws for each State (Dept. of Labor)
- Food Safety Manual
Comprehensive Web Sites
- Baking 911
- BevNet
- Industry news, product reviews, marketplace...
- Food Resource: Links
- FEES: Food and Food Safety
- Links to information on: citrus, dairy, fruits and vegetables, meats, sweets, fats and oils, food and drug interactions, food and pesticides, food preservation, food safety, labeling,
- Food Info Net
- Information on: market research, industry news, safety, equipment, companies...
- Food Web
- Gourmet World
- Healthy Foods
- List of foods, along with detailed information on the benefits, history, picture, nutrients and nutritional chart, how to select and store, how to prepare and links to recipes.
- International Food Information Council
- Links to information on: nutrition, food safety, food allergies, and food terms.
- O Chef
- Search by keyword or by topic for information on: dairy, frequently asked food questions, equipment, safety, sauces, and seafood. Includes history of ingredients.
- Worldwide Gourmet
- Internaional cuisine recipes, history of food database, food glossary, conversion charts, food by country, and basic techniques. Includes information on table setting, serving wine...
Specialized Web Sites
- Career Guide for Culinary Arts
- Chef's Professional
- Links to: resume tips, interview tips, internships, OSHA tips, tax tips.
- Baking: Joy of Baking
- Cook's Theasurus
- Encyclopedia of food with pictures and lots of information, cooking measurements, recipe substitutions...
- Cook's Theasurus: Ingredients & Kitchen Tools
- Chuck's Produce Talk
- Ingredient Substitutions
- Ethnic Foods: Recipes, Food Tips, Countries...
- Escoffier
- HACCP
- Food Timeline
- Pastry Wiz Food Resource
- Spices: Uses & History
- Spice & Herb Encyclopedia
- Spices
- Test Kitchen Online
- Institute of Food Research
- Thomas Regional Directory
- Waiter's Guide
- Food Safety Database
- Includes fact sheets, information for trainers. Limit by food category, biological hazard, chemical hazard, institutional setting, best practices, and flow of food.
Associations
- American Culinary Federation
- American Hotel & Lodging Assocation
- Council on Hotel, Restaurantant and Institutional Education (CHRIE)
- Association information, along with a section just for students. This section includes information about job fairs and job leads.
- National Restaurant Association
Bar & Beverage Links
- Bar School: Recipes
- Bar-None Drink Recipes
- Designated Drinker
- Home Bartender's Guide
- iDrink: Drink Mixers
- SPECS Bartender Guide
- Webtender
- Tastings
- Understanding Wine (tutorial)
- Artisans on Web: ezines
- California & Washington Wines: Links
- Links to: pests and diseases, the industry, wineries, regions, cooking with wine, corks, history, industry standards, prices, reviews...
- Restaurant Wine : Ezine
- Wine Day : Ezine
- Local Wine Events Search
- Find Your Wine
- Hot Wine
- Oregon Wines
- Table Wine
- Time for Wine: Wine Tastings
- Wine Tastings tips, links to wineries, wine rating sheet, and wine reviews.
- Vintage Port
- Wine Access
- Wine.com
- Wine Dictionary
- Not only a dictionary, but also includes audio pronunciation of most words and wine regions.
- Wine Files
- Wine Links
Equipment
News & Magazines
- Cooking Light
- Fine Cooking Online
- Food Chemical News
- Food TV (Food Channel)
- Food Marketing Institute (FMI)
- Internet Chef Online
- National Restaurant Association
- Nation's Restaurant News
- Restaurant Report On-Line
- Restaurant Startup and Growth
The Library subscribes to the following publications. The most recent issue is on display and back issues are available at the Circulation Counter. Bound issues are shelved in the upper level of the Library. Check the Periodicals Guide for information on the previous years shelved or bound.
- Bon Appetit
- Gourmet
- Harvard Business Review
- Nation's Restaurant News
- Catering Industry Employee
Nutrition
- Nutri-Facts
- Nutrition information on almost six thousand different foods.
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Information on: canned foods, dies, HACCP, packaging, cosmetics, biotechnology, infant formulas, inspections, contaminants, consumer tips...
- Food Fit: Healthy Eating
- Food & Nutrition Information Center
- Dietary information, nutrition tables, food composition, diet supplements, food pyramid...
- Nutrition Data
- Searchable database of food composition and nutrition information. Includes nutrition facts; a calorie ratio pyramid for carbohydrates, fats, and protein; and detailed information about minerals, vitamins, etc. Includes nutritional data for some fast-food restaurants.
- Nutrition Information and Resource Center
- Search engine plus links to information on nutrition for various ages and stages in life, food safety, food and food groups, food research, sports nutrition, and more.
- Sports and Nutrition
- Diet, meal planner, fluid intact information. Available in English or Spanish.
Recipes
- Copy Kat Creations
- Culinary Net
- Feeding America
- Digital collection of 76 historic cookbooks. Full-text searchable. Gallery of period cooking implements.
- Food Fit: Healthy Eating
- Food Network's CyberKitchen
- Global Gourmet
- Kitchen Link
- StarChefs
- Texas Cooking Magazine
Restaurants
Suggested Subject Headings
Do a SUBJECT or KEYWORD search in the Online catalog for your topic. After doing your search, you can limit the results to books at El Centro by selecting the Limit Your Search button.
| baking food cookery liquors nutrition menus caters and catering confectionary gastronomy |
wine and wine making meat industry & trade restaurant management buffets appetizers alcoholic beverages cake decorating kitchen utensils quantity cookery |
Recommended Reference Books
in-library use only
Chef's Book of Formulas, Yields, and Sizes
REF TX 820 S355
Food Values of Portions Commonly Used
REF TX 551 B64
New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts
REF TX 349 W42
Hering's Dictionary of Classical & Modern Cookery
REF TX 349 H5413
Larousse Gastronomique
REF TX 349 L3613
New Professional Chef
REF Tx 820 C85
On Cooking
REF TX 651 L33
SPECS
REF TX 911.3 P8 P4
Wenzel's Menu Maker
REF TX 820 W43
HACCP Food Safety Manual
REF TX 537 L58
The best guide to resources is a librarian who can help you in using the catalog, databases and the Web. A librarian can also assist you in selecting materials appropriate for your needs. Please ask at any service desk for information or assistance!
The El Centro College Library does not guarantee the currency or accuracy of these websites. Links to these sites do not represent an endorsement of the site or of information contained within the site.
Reference/Information Desk: 214-860-2174 Circulation:
214-860-2175
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Dallas, TX
Last Updated:
October 2, 2008