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FHD315 Global Cuisine & Connections: Find Books

Use this guide to find biographies of chefs and influential figures, as well as exploring global classical cuisines. Also included are information resources related to food waste control and management.

Selected Books

Start in the Library Catalog

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Search Tips

Search Tips

  • try searching "chef's biography" or "cooks biography" if you do not have a specifc chef in mind
  • try searching your chef as a keyword using quotation marks:  "julia child"
  • to search your chef as a subject (books about him/her), start your search with su:last name, first name
  • to search for books written by your chef (his/her works), start your search with au:last name, first name
  • use Advanced Search to combine search categories, as well as limit by date, format, etc.
  • remember we may not have a book on a particular chef, but he or she may be listed in a book featuring a number of chefs, e.g., Great Chefs of the East
  • to search other libraries, select Libraries Worldwide from the drop-down box

Our eBook Collections

Books on Second Floor of Madigan Library TX Range

Here is sample list of just some of the books in the Madigan Library collection. If you do not find a book specifically about a certain figure, you may need to search more broadly and look at the Table of Contents or the Index of a book to see if your influential figure is mentioned there or in a more comprehensive source. Find others source books by searching WorldCat.