Italian Foodways: Culinary & Cultural (R)evolution: Home

Journal Articles 

1. All Subjects

• JStor
• Project Muse

2. Subject-specific Databases

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Academic Search Premier
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Environment Complete
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine
• Women's Studies International

3. A Few Noted Journals

• Food, Culture, & Society
• Food and Foodways
• Food Policy
• Gastronomica: The journal of critical food studies
• Journal of Food Science

Books    

• JumboSearch
• Libraries Worldwide 

Path of Discovery in JumboSearch, (our book catalog and more)

1. Find a relevant book (e.g., from your assigned readings?)
2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.
3. Use that language in further searches

e.g., Click on subject headings in the record to see further results and related topics; and/or combine these subject phrases with other keywords for a more focused search:

Title::	Italian identity in the kitchen, or, Food and the nation
Author	Montanari, Massimo; Brombert, Beth Archer.
Subjects:	Cooking, Italian -- History
	Food -- Italy
	Italians -- Ethnic identity
	Italy -- Social life and customs
	National characteristics, Italian

Here are a few more subject browsing patterns for your reference:

• Cooking, Italian -- Venetian style
• Food habits -- Italy -- History
• Gastronomy -- Italy -- History
• Food habits -- Italy -- Psychological aspects -- History
• Food habits -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
• Food in motion pictures
• Food in popular culture

• Cooking (Olives)
• Olive -- Folklore
• Olive -- History

Some Background Readings:

• The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why
• 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
• Food and Culture: a Reader
• Bloomsbury Food Library
  A broad range of encyclopedias, references works, images, and more on interdisciplinary food studies.