Cuisine as Culture
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Kelly Cannon
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Starting places...
Encyclopedias in/via Trexler Library
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (Ref. Collection 305.800973 V413g)
American Immigrant Culture (Ref. Collection 305.800973 L657a)
Food and Drink in America (Ref. Collection 641.3003)
Cambridge History of World Food vol. 1 (a scholarly work itself)
Cambridge History of World Food vol. 2 (a scholarly work itself)
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Books
Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Some useful SUBJECT headings are:Food habits and United States
corn
swine
peppers
tomatoes
sugar tradeWorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.Google Books
Portions of the text of many books can be found here.
Periodical articles (popular and scholarly)
general indexes with full text. . .
Academic Search Premier
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 3000 journals. Limit to "peer reviewed" to find only scholarly articles. Back issues of journals begin as early as 1990. Recent issues may not be included yet, due to publisher agreement. Journals held in Trexler Library are marked accordingly.subject-specialty indexes (scholarly). . .
Historical Abstracts
A subscription database for non-U.S. history. Some full text.Index to Jewish Periodicals
A subscription database.Sociological Abstracts
A subscription database. Standard index for sociology.
Interlibrary loan
Books and journal articles can be requested from another library via interlibrary loan.
Search engines
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.Intute
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.
Powerpoint best practices
Creating a bibliography
For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.
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Last modified: 22 January 2012
