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Scope of Web Page
This site supplements the print, media and electronic resources available
in the ACC libraries. It focuses on culinary news, research, techniques
and cooking skills. For information on the hotel and restaurant industry,
including restaurant management, food management, and food safety, see the
Hospitality website.
Events & News
For current local happenings, check the
Austin Chronicle Food section “Event Menu” under "News and
Reviews" the Austin
American-Statesman's "Food Matters” feature for the latest
culinary demos, events, and news and Austinist
for all forms of entertainment.
Archive of
Previous Events & News
Culinary Reference Books
Books and E-Books
ACC has a variety of print and online materials for your research needs.
Refer to the ACC Library Catalog for
more titles. When searching the Catalog, use keywords such as "cookery"
or "food" or "recipe" or "nutrition".
Culinary E-books -- Annotated listing of e-books on careers, catering,
cooking, history and culture, food science, and ingredients. Download
Word document
Beard Foundation Award Winners -- These nationally acclaimed titles
are currently available at Eastview Campus. Download
Word document
New Books -- Materials purchased in
support of the ACC culinary arts program during the previous year.
Articles and News Databases
Academic Search Premier
– Full text articles from more than 4,600 periodicals.
Business
Source Complete - Full text articles from 11,200 scholarly business
journals.
InfoTrac Newspapers -
Updated daily, full text from 140 national and international newspapers
and selected full text from 300 news and business sources.
Newspaper
Source - Updated daily, full text from 30 national and international
newspapers, with selected full text for more than 200 regional newspapers.
Recommended Culinary Websites
Bakery-Net
Comprehensive site for professional bakers with online articles, recipes,
news, events, education, and more.
Cook's Thesaurus
An encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools,
include pictures, synonyms, and suggested substitutions.
Escoffier Online
Culinary Web Resources, Culinary Education and Scholarship Info and Culinary
Career Center.
Epicurean Online
A site for everything cooking related. Look for daily link to something
interesting, chef's calculator, discussion forum, articles, recipes, an
interactive recipe exchange, and more.
Food Glossaries and Dictionaries
Many interesting and helpful sites with food definitions and explanations.
Food Reference Website
Listing of upcoming culinary events as well as a "This Date In Food History"
section.
Fruit Facts
Detailed descriptions of over 50 different fruits, including origin, adaptation,
and characteristics of cultivars.
Just Food
Food industry news, analysis and research.
Wine Spectator
Comprehensive wine site with information for the novice to expert. Read
news, articles, search the winery database, find the right wine for a
meal with the interactive food and wine matching guide and browse menus.
Links to Related ACC Web Sites
Culinary arts resources on
display at ACC
Eastview Library recently featured cookbooks and culinary reference
books supporting coursework in baking, wine and introductory food studies.
Displays also featured Beard Foundation award-winning books.
ACC Culinary Degree Plans,
courses and departmental website
Brian Hay, Culinary Arts
Department Chair.
Virginia Lawrence, Hospitality
Management, Travel & Tourism and Meeting & Event Management
Department Chair.
Library Hospitality Management
Web Resources
Library Travel and Tourism
Web Resources
Library Nutrition Web Resources
Publications
Trade journals:
Popular culinary magazines:
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Recipes
101Cookbooks
San Francisco-based photographer and author Heidi Swanson reviews the
recipes. Great way to see sample recipes and ideas from an innovative,
cross-cultural cookbook collection.
Allrecipes.com
30,000 family favorites submitted by home-cooks and some commercial
kitchens. Includes user ratings and reviews, and clickable serving size
conversion feature.
Mimi's Cyber Kitchen
In addition to recipes, Mimi provides reviews of cookbooks and cooking
software, plus cooking bibliographies.
Recipe Source
Over 60,000 recipes in a searchable database from the University of
California Berkeley. Search for a particular ingredient, or browse by
such categories as cuisine, side dishes, soups, main dishes, etc.
RecipeLink.com
Home to thousands of recipes and 20,000+ hand-selected cooking and recipe
links!
SoupSong
Dedicated to all things soup -- find a great variety of soup recipies,
soup history, lore and customs, soup in the news and much more. Informative
section called food tales.
Texas Cooking
Feature articles, recipes, cooking tips and more!
Veggies Unite!
A site that features over 2,700 vegan recipes.
Organizations
The following are just a few web pages for culinary organizations. Many
of them provide useful links to other sites of culinary interest.
American Culinary Federation
(ACF)
American Institute of Wine
& Food (AIWF)
Foodways Group of Austin
International Association
of Culinary Professionals (IACP)
Slow Food USA
Educational Opportunities
Culinary Institute of America
Distance Learning Programs
The Professional Chef Discovery Series is tuition-free E-learning courses
designed to teach culinary professionals new ideas about ingredients,
cooking techniques, and the recipe trends that are shaping the forefront
of contemporary cuisine.
Epicurious Cooking Technique
Videos
View helpful, online technique videos providing hands-on culinary guidance
on a variety of topics.
Live@Exploratorium - Science
and Culture of Cooking
Informative series of Webcasts exploring cooking with chefs, food chemists,
and nutritionists.
Peterson's Culinary Schools
A listing of top cooking and restaurant management schools in the United
States and around the world.
Sharpen Your Baking Skills
From King Arthur Flour, online baking classes as well as primers and
indispensable tips.
Wine Spectator School
Online classes ranging from the ABCs of Wine Tasting, to Connoisseur
Level, to Advanced Level in-depth seminars.
Restaurant Reviews
Austin Chronicle Restaurant
Guide
Search by name, cuisine-type or region of the city.
Dining Out with Rob Balon
Hundreds of Austin restaurant reviews sorted by cuisine and location.
Fun (and informative too!)
The Baker's Catalogue
From King Arthur Flour, this portal offers a huge selection of items
for bakers from tools to ingredients to recipes. Sign up for their helpful
newsletter.
Food TV Network
Links to the shows and recipes featured on the popular cable television
channel.
Gallery of Regrettable Food
Interesting collection of recipes and cookbooks from the 30s, 40s, 50s,
and 60s.
Julia Child's Kitchen At The
Smithsonian
Take a tour of this famous chef's kitchen, learn about various kitchen
tools she relied upon and listen to her stories about her life and cooking.
The Meaning of Food
Documentary from PBS that explores our relationships to food. Presents
sections on food and life, food and culture, and food and family.
Selected Blogs
Well Fed Network
A compilation high-quality food blogs.
101Cookbooks
Heidi Swanson's popular blog.
The Accidental Hedonist
Kate Hopkins shares delicious recipes as well as her thoughts about corporate restaurants and the American food industry.
Chocolate
and Zucchini
French flavored blog about fresh, healthy eating and, well, chocolate.
Foodsection
Josh Friedland tracks "all the news that's fit to eat," with
links to magazines, newspapers, websites and other blogs in 60 categories
like gadgets, trends and news.
Vinography
Wine news and reviews from the west coast.
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