Using Catalogs:
Use the WSU online
catalog to find location and availability of books and other
media in Stewart Library.
- Useful keywords: food / culture / food habits / dining
/ cookery / food history / specific names of cultures or countries
(for example: China food, cookery chinese, cookery near east)
/ vegetarian / microwave / and so on. Use these terms to do a
keyword in general or title search.
- LC Subject Headings: food habits / cookery / dinners
and dining / food supply / nutrition--united states--cross-cultural
studies / food--social aspects / cookery chinese / cookery, near
east / indians of north america--food / recipes--utah / vegetarian
cookery / aztecs--food / and so on. Use these terms to do an alphabetical
browse of subject search.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular book or article you need,
we will borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include
encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer"
to. Use these resources for background information on a topic.
There are a number of useful Reference books, such as:
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures REF GN 307.E53
- Encyclopedia
of Food and Culture REF GT 2850.E53 2003 This is a great
source for information about food in countries around the world.
Also available full text online, requires WSU ID for off-campus
access
- The Cambridge World History of Food - REF TX
353 .C255 2000
- Larousse Gastronomique - REF TX 349 .M613
- Encyclopedia of North American Eating & Drinking Traditions,
Customs & Rituals - REF GT2853 .U5 G39 1996
- Cultures of Color in America : A Guide to Family, Religion
and Health REF E 184.A1L33
- Edible Plants & Animals: Unusual Foods from Aardvark
to Zamia - REF TX 743 .L58
- The New Oxford Book of Food Plants - REF
SB 175 .V38 1997
- The Visual Food Encyclopedia - REF TX 348 .E48 1996
- Culture Grams:World Edition - REF Index Table 5A (Check
out older editions at: GT 150 .C852 2nd Floor S)
- Countries & their Cultures- REF Index Table 5A
- xreferplus:
Food - Includes the International Dictionary of Food
& Cooking - Online, requires WSU ID for off-campus access.
- Oxford
Reference Online: Food - Online, requires
WSU ID for off-campus access.
Article Databases
To find articles on your
topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. Some indexes
are available from off campus via the off-campus
access service. A few important databases to consider
for this topic include:
- EbscoHost
Over two dozen databases with full text articles from thousands
of magazines and scholarly journals. Three will probably be most
useful:
Academic Search
Premier
-- a good place to get both popular and scholarly information
on a wide variety of topics, both health and culture related.
Health databases
-- a good place to find health information, including
diet & nutrition. Not as good on the cultural aspects.
Business Source
Premier -- a good place to look for more business related
aspects -- for example, the effects of advertising.
- Sociological
Abstracts
This database covers all aspects of culture, sociology, anthropology,
and so on. No full text articles available on the computer, some
have abstracts (or summaries).
- MEDLINE
Highly technical, extremely comprehensive medical database. Limited
full text; most references have abstracts.
- CINAHL
Comprehensive and fairly technical nursing and allied health database,
Some full text articles on the computer, but mostly abstracts.
- Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text Articles in English & Spanish from a variety of
U.S. newspapers, magazines and journals published by ethnic and
minority groups.
Newspapers
Deseret News,
Salt Lake Tribune
and the
Ogden Standard
are all on the Web. Many other newspapers are
available on online, although most papers don't provide indexes to
back issues, only current day. For a list of WSU newspaper
databases, see the
Newspapers
page.
Browsing Current Perodicals
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area on the Main
level. Bound volumes of older issues are found on the second floor
in the General Collection stacks.
Electronic Journals
The library subscribes
to many electronic journals in various disciplines. For a
complete listing see our Ejournals
Database.
Here are some WWW sites
to get you started. Many of these will take you to other links,
so explore!
General Sites
Multicultural
Nutrition
Recipes
and Other Food Information