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Some Print Resources at the WCC Library

  • Food : Opposing Viewpoints by Laura Egendorf (Research Topic Carrel, Library Use Only)
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma : a Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (GT2850 .P65 2006)
  • Hungry Planet : What the World Eats photographs by Peter Menzel, written by Faith D’Aluisio. (TX353 .M43 2005)
  • The Future of Food by Brian Ford (HB72 .F67 2000)
  • Fast and Feast : Food in Medieval Society by Bridget Ann Henisch (GT2853.E8 H46 1976)
  • Much Depends on Dinner : the Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal by Margaret Visser (GT2860 .V57 1987)
  • Pickled, potted, and canned : how the art and science of food preserving changed the world by Sue Shephard (TX601 .S47 2001)

Note: Cookbooks are located in the TX section of the library. We have a lot of them. Hawaiian cookbooks are located in the Hawaiian section, and must be requested at the circulation desk.

One cannot think well, love well sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

Search for more books in the library using Voyager


Digital Books (via eBrary and NetLibrary)

Users must login if they are off campus and for eBrary a plug-in must be installed

Web Sites

  • none

Videos

(search for more books in the library using Voyager)

  • Babbett's Feast (DVD)
  • The Big Night (DVD)
  • Delicatessen (DVD)
  • Scotland, Pa. (DVD)
  • Supersize Me (DVD)

Hawaiian Food

  • Hawai‘i Foods (via UH Manoa)
  • Hawaiian breadfruit : ethnobotany, nutrition, and human ecology by Brien Meilleur (Hawaiian Collection, SB379.B8 H39 2004)
  • Sam Choy’s Polynesian kitchen by Sam Choy (Hawaiian Collection, Library Use Only, TX724.5.P6 C48 2002)

Note: try a keyword search for particular foods, styles or chefs.


Food Safety


Food and Consumerism


Fast Food

  • Fast Food Nation : the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (TX945.3 .S355 2002)
  • Appetite for Profit : How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back by Michele Simon (TX360.U6 S56 2006)
  • Golden Arches East : McDonald’s in East Asia edited by James Watson (eBrary)
  • Working for McDonald’s in Europe the Unequal Struggle? by Tony Royle (eBrary)
  • McDonald’s : Behind the Arches by John Love (TX945.5.M33 L68 1986)

 

For more resources, including online journal articles, check out the WCC Library main page.

page last updated: July 14, 2008