Title: Encyclopedia [of food terms] Provider: FoodNetwork.com
Subject Heading/s: Cookery
LC Class: TX
Reference Category: Dictionaries
Description: A comprehensive multilingual dictionary of foods and cooking. Many terms are taken from The New Food Lover's Companion, Second Edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst.
Title: Epicurious Provider: Epicurious
Subject Heading/s: Cookery
LC Class: TX
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: Billing itself as the "World's Greatest Recipe Collection," this site provides detailed recipes from magazines and books. Its database may be searched by national cuisine, type of dish main ingrediants, etc.
Title: Food Timeline Provider: Morris County (NJ) Library
Subject Heading/s: Food
LC Class: TX
Reference Category: Chronologies
Description: "The Food Timeline was created . . . for help locating food history and period recipes. All information is checked against standard reference tools for accuracy . . ."
Updated 10/18/05
Title: Household Products Database Provider: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Subject Heading/s: Household supplies--Toxicology.
LC Class: TX
Reference Category: Compendiums
Description: "This database links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients. The database is designed to help answer the following typical questions:
* What are the chemical ingredients and their percentage in specific brands?
* Which products contain specific chemical ingredients?
* Who manufactures a specific brand? How do I contact this manufacturer?
* What are the acute and chronic effects of chemical ingredients in a specific brand?
* What other information is available about chemicals in the toxicology-related databases of the National Library of Medicine?
Title: Nutrition Country Profiles Provider: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Subject Heading/s: Nutrition; Food supply.
LC Class: TX
Reference Category: Compendiums
Description: "The Nutrition Country Profiles (NCP) provide concise analytical summaries describing the food and nutrition situation in individual countries, with background statistics on food-related factors such as agricultural production, and selected economic and demographic indicators. The information is presented in a disaggregated fashion to the extent possible, emphasizing trends and sub-national differences where data are available."
Title: RecipeSource Provider: RecipeSource
Subject Heading/s: Cookery
LC Class: TX
Reference Category: Databases
Description: A searchable database of recipes which are also arranged by geographic region or by type of food.