HIST 2: Foodways: A Global History

• Finding Books
• Suggested Print Resources
• Finding Historical Primary Sources
• Online Books
• Finding Articles
• Managing Your References/Evaluating Your Sources

Finding Books: Searching for Cookbooks and Food in History

OskiCat is the UC Berkeley Library web catalog.

Subject headings:

Cooking, American

Mexican American cooking

Food -- History

Food habits -- History

Gastronomy

Keywords:

Cookery

Holl gastronomy (for materials in the Holl Gastronomy Collection)

Resource	Coverage	Unique Features
OskiCat OskiCat Quick Guide (PDF)	Most UCB libraries (more information)	Renew your books online Find course reserves Request checked out or offsite items Restrict your search to a specific library, online items, or available items only.
Melvyl Melvyl Guide	Most UCB libraries and many libraries worldwide, plus citations to selected articles (more information)	Search libraries worldwide Request items UCB doesn't own Create and save lists and add tags to items Automatically format citations
Electronic Books	Links to Google Books, Open Library, and other electronic book resources categorized by subject.	Search the full text of relevant materials Full text may be available online

Suggested Print Resources

Food culture in Great Britain / Laura Mason. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

• Bioscience & Natural Resources Cookery TX717 .M387 2004
  
  

Food in history / Reay Tannahill. New York : Stein and Day, [1973].

• Bioscience & Natural Resources TX353 .T6
  Also held at Anthropology and Moffitt libraries.
  
  

Book of household management / Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865. Various editions.

The Cambridge world history of food, v. 1-2 / Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, editors. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Bioscience & Natural Resources Reserves TX353 .C255 2000.

Online Books

• ebrary: a collection of over 70,000 electronic books in a wide range of subject areas, including many titles related to food and history
• Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project [MSU Libraries]
• HathiTrust Collections:
  

  18th-Century Cookbooks

  19th-Century Cookbooks

• Internet Archive: EBook and Texts Archive

Finding Articles

Search article databases to find articles from journals and magazines, papers presented at conferences, and other sources.

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Food History Article Databases
Academic Search Complete Multidisciplinary source for scholarly journal and popular magazine articles; indexes and abstracts articles from more than 10,900 English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese sources. Full text is available for over 5300 journals.
Historical Abstracts Indexes over 2,000 journals, as well as historical book reviews and dissertations, published worldwide about all aspects of world history from 1450 to the present. Articles covered were written from 1954 to the present.

Managing Your References and Evaluating Your Sources

• Critical Evaluation of Resources Questions to ask when evaluating the suitability of a book, article, website, or other material.
• Citing Your Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Quick guides to APA, MLA, and Chicago-Turabian styles.
• RefWorks The UCB Libraries have purchased a site license to RefWorks. Sign up for a free account, and manage your references and format bibliographies with just a few clicks. (Tutorials and Guides)