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Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World. 2002. 4 vols.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. 2004. 3 vols.
Internet Resources:
General, Career; Certification; Chefs, Conversions, Equivalents and Calculators; Dictionaries and Glossaries; Food costing; Food history; Food Safety; Nutrition; Organizations; Techniques; Wine
General:
Digital Librarian - One stop shopping for food related resources on the Internet.
Epicurious - Most comprehensive culinary site on the Web.
Career Information:
Vocational Information Center - Descriptions of numerous culinary and food science careers.
CookingSchools.com - Articles about culinary careers
ChefJobsNetwork - Search job ads here
Certification:
American Culinary Federation - Describes the levels of certification for cooking professionals.
United States Personal Chef Association - Specialized certification for personal chefs.
Sommelier Society of America - Recognition of expertise in wine.
Chefs:
Star Chefs - Learn more about your favorite chefs.
Yahoo Chefs - Quick links to famous chef's home pages
Great Chefs - Internet companion to the television series
Conversions, Equivalents and Calculators:
Gourmet Sleuth - Variety of generic calculators to convert measurements used in cooking as well as food specific conversions.
Culinary Café - Volume to weight conversions for some of the most common foods.
The Metric Kitchen - Useful tables for converting American recipes to metric measurements.
Dictionaries and Glossaries:
The Cook’s Thesaurus - Includes pictures and suggested substitutions.
Hungrymonster.com - Comprehensive searchable list of food items.
Epicurious Food Dictionary - Contains more than 4,000 food related terms.
Food Costing:
Marscafe Calculators - Includes food cost %, cost of sales, and yield test factor calculators.
UNLV - An Excel template with formula.
Walnut Hill College - This Excel template with formulas includes sample data to replace with your own
Food History:
About.com - History of foods and food related inventions.
Food Timeline - Get the scoop on the history of numerous foods including brand names.
Food Safety:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Programs of the Food Safety Office of the CDC.
Food Safety and Inspection Service - Agency of the US Department of Agriculture which is responsible for insuring a safe food supply.
National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) - Food research consortium which is a joint effort of the food industry and the FDA.
SafeServ - Training in safe food handling.
Nutrition:
Nutrition Data - Searchable database with very detailed nutrition information for brand name foods.
NATS - Nutritional Analysis Tools and System from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois.
Recipe Link - Nutrition information on thousands of foods including brand name items.
Organizations:
American Culinary Federation (ACF) - Leading professional chefs' organization.
Culinary Institute of America - A not-for-profit organization established to provide culinary education.
International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) - Professional association for anyone in culinary education or culinary related fields.
National Restaurant Association - Major business organization of the restaurant industry.
Southern Foodways Alliance - “Documents and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South.”
Techniques:
Technique Videos from Epicurious - Scroll down and click on “Technique Videos.” Covers all the food groups as well as knife skills and napkin folding.
Preparing Fish - Everything you need to know for preparing fish for cooking.
Wine Resources:
Wine Enthusiast Magazine - An online wine magazine with a searchable database of wine reviews.
Wine Review Online - Searchable wine reviews.