RECIPE SOURCES: NEW

• Google
  1. Name of dish + recipe: "chicken francese" recipe; pizza recipes
  2. List of ingredients + recipe: lamb potatoes; chicken peppers onions
  3. Special instructions: easy sweet potato pie; diabetic desserts; salt free soup 4. TV shows: "Rachel Ray" lidia italian
• Recipe databases are great for ideas: RecipeSource & Recipe*zaar
• Magazines & newspapers: Gourmet & Star Ledger (Star Ledger)

RECIPE SOURCES: OLD

• EBSCO's Masterfile & ProQuest Research databases locate recipes from magazines published mid-1980s to present.
• New York Times Historic database...1851-2004 (available in library only). Craig Claiborne's Stuffed Green Peppers (1959).
• Recipe swaps: www.epicurious.com
• Uncle Phaedrus...recovering "lost" recipes

COMPANIES & BRANDS

• Company sites for find product information: www.kraft.com... recipes, ingredients, contacts
• Popular brands have their own Web sites: Betty Crocker & Jello
• Hard-to-find & discontinued products: Hometown Favorites, Vermont Country Store & Groovy Candies
• If the company's Web only offers the e-mail contact run a "Whois": www.netsol.com to get address, telephone & fax.

COOK'S TOOLS

• Food dictionary ...excellent source for cooking terms
• Ingredient substitutions...missing a *key* ingredient?
• Cooking measures...U.S./Metric equivalents, yields & equivalencies (dried apricots to fresh apricots), British/U.S. cooking terms
• Recipe adjuster...adjust up or down
• Baking911: what went wrong? (cakes)

RECALLS & SAFETY

• Food recalls...current & archived: product ID, reason, how discovered, and contact.
• Safe food practices...U.S. Food & Drug Administration: guidelines for storage, handling, food-borne illnesses, cooking for groups/bake sales
• Preserving food safely (w best to freeze potatoes?)& Freezer storage chart

FOOD FUN & HISTORY

• Food Reference...trivia, contests, tours,
• The Food Timeline... food origins, historic recipes, homework help, party tips & reference service.

Have questions? Ask! Morris County Reference Services (973) 285-6969