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A collection of online resources, books, references, and texts related to gastronomy, food culture, sustainable food systems, and food history. Wine related and Cheese-related materials are in their own subsections.
  • General Online Resources & Reference Materials
  • Bibliographies
  • Agriculture, Agroecology, & Sustainable Food Systems
  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Criticism
  • History of Food
  • Molecular Gastronomy
  • Seafood
  • Sustainable Tourism & Foodservice
  • Primary Sources
  • Article Collections & Online Magazines
  • Organizations--Web Sites

General Online Resources and Reference

Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania

American Library Association, Culinary Resources: Cooking and culinary history Web sites

Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Cornell University Library, "Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage." 2002 exhibit

Internet history Sourcebooks Project

Longone Culinary Archive, Center for American Culinary Research, University of Michigan

Medieval and Renaissance Food Homepage

Related Resources, "Food for Thought: Writing and Reading About Food & Culture", MIT

Electronic Text Center: University of Virgnia Library

escholarship editions, University of California system

escholarship Repository: scholarly articles, University of California system

Gallica: Biobliotheque nationale de France (French digital resource)

High Wire Press, Stanford University: academic journals and articles online

Open University Library electronic resources

Open Learn: The Open University, England

Boston University Library's Research Guide on Gastronomy

New York Public Library: Research Guide, Culinary History

A Selective Guide to Culinary Library Collections in Canada and the United States

University of Michigan Graduate Library: Food Studies Resources

Les vidéos de la catégorie Cuisine, Linternaute (French)

Bibliographies

Bibliogrphay of Fishing Activity

World Food Habits Bibliography

Agriculture

Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems

Fonte, Maria, "Food Systems, Consumption Models and Risk Perception In Late Modernity"

EATING UP THE EARTH: HOW SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS SHRINK OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT by Diana Deumling, Mathis Wackernagel, and Chad Monfreda

Jordan, "Jennifer A., "The Heirloom Tomato as Cultural Object: Investigating Taste and Space"

Juhasz, Mark, "Food Consciousness and the Radical Potential of Eco-Gastronomy: The Story of Terra Madre and Slow Food"

Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture

Anthropology

Anthropology of Food, Online Journal

Australian Journal of Anthropology, issue on food, April, 2004

Counihan, Carole M. "Florentine Cuisine & Culture."

L'Homme, French journal of anthropology

Kloppenberg, Jack Jr., et al. "Tasting food, tasting sustainability: Defining the attributes of an alternative food system with competent, ordinary people." Human Organization, 2000.

Mintz, Sidney. "Sweet Polychrest -- sugar." Social Research, 1999.

Rao, Hayagreeva et. al. "Institutional Change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in French Gastronomy"

Cultural Criticism

Chandler, Daniel. "Semiotics for Begginers."

Housman, A.E. "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism"

History

Fredrickson, Lars. "The Liquor from Luzhou and the secret of the earth cellar."

Freedman, Paul. "Spices: How the Search for Flavors Influenced Our World" Yale Global, 2003

Green, Jennifer L., "Ier Col·loqui d'Història de l'Alimentació a la Corona d'Aragó Edat Mitjana." Comtatus, 1998 (Review article in English)

Grew, Rayond, "The History of Food & Global History." Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, yaleglobal

Huntsman, Mark. "Les cuisines mères: une analyse historique des racines francophones de la gastronomie de la Nouvelle Orléans" Master's theses.

Jamieson, Ross W. "The Essence of Commodification: Caffeine dependencies in the early modern world." Journal of Social History, 2001.

Larkin, John A. Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society

Martin, Gary "Food & Feud in Saga Iceland."

Super, John C. "Review essay: food & history." Journal of Social History, Fall, 2002.

Vitaux, M. Jean. "PEUT-ON ECRIRE L'HISTOIRE DE LA GASTRONOMIE?" Academie de Sciences Morales et Politiques, 2005.

another copy of Vitaux's essay with sound recording

Gross, Isabelle. "La femme et la nourriture dans l'oeuvre de Gérard Etienne"

Molecular Gastronomy

Gastronomie Moleculaire -- INRA, France

This, Hervé. "Le Groupe INRA de Gastronomie Moléculaire."

"Molecular gastonomy: a scientific look to cooking"

M.I.T.: Kitchen Chemistry class

wikipedia

tiscali.com summary of molecular gastronomy

Master Chef course from the BBC

Seafood

Seafood Watch: Make Choices for Healthy Oceans, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sustainable Tourism & Foodservice

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Google Scholar:  a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature:

Google Scholar

FindArticles Site

Primary Sources

Early Canadiana Online

Corpus of culinary & dietetic texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800

ebooks@Adelaide: Gastronomy

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, Mann Library, Cornell University

Gastronomie médiévale: Bibliotheque national de France

Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Fordham University

Internet Medeival History Sourcebook, Fordham University

Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University

Libro: The Library of Iberian Sources Online

Medeival Cookbooks: Online Cookbooks

Medeival Gastronomy (English version)

The Historic American Cookbook Project

Feature Articles & Interviews, Institute of Culinary Education, New York

Restaurants USA Archives, National Restaurant Association

Selected Works on Gastronomy in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Article Collections and Online Magazines

Slow magazine from the Slow Food Movement

Thinking outside the Lunchbox, essay series, Center for Ecoliteracy

Organizations

Institut Européen D'Histoires et Des Cultures de L'Alimentation

Grupo Gastronautus

Culinary Insititute of America Digital Video Library

Kjellgren, Björn. "Drunken modernity: wine in China."

Cheese Studies Resources

The Artisanal Cheese Guide

The Biology of Cheese: Safety versus flavor in the land of Pasteur, DISCOVER Vol. 22 No. 11 | November 2001

Fabrication des Fromages de la Brie Au coeur de la Fromagerie de la Brie

Fine Cheese from France

History of Grana Padano

Retail and Foodservice Professional's Guide to California Cheese

San Francisco Chronicle, Cheese Course column archives

Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide, Gallo of Sonoma

Wine Studies Resources

Burgundy Report

Can chemical analysis confirm a wine's authenticity? Science News

The Chemistry of Wine Making

Internet Wine Guide

Curso de vinos (Spanish)

Matching Table Wines with Foods

Online Rioja Wine Tasting Course (Spanish)

Online Wine Tasting Course, Wine Lovers Page

Quarterly Revue of Wines

Resources, Wine Spectator School

A Taste of Wine Online, CIA ProChef, 1 CEU

Roman Wine

Torres Wine Courses (English and Spanish, registration required).

Vintage School, Free Basic Wine Course

Viticulture & oenology, University of Adelaide Library, Australia

Wine 101, Professional Friends of Wine

Wine Business magazine

Wine Literature of the World, State Library, South Australia

Wine Marketing, University of Adelaide Library

Wines of France

Wine Science

Creole Gastronomy Studies

DE LA COCINA MORISCAA LA CRISTIANA: EL CORDERO DE TABERNAS Y LOS MANTECAOS DE TERQUE

Descripción de las especias más utilizadas en Al andalus y su uso actual en la cocina marroquí

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