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Welcome to my Research Sources page for Italian Foodways! Chao Chen, your research librarian |
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Finding Journal Articles
1. All Subjects
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
Evaluating Information
Finding Books
Path of Discovery in JumboSearch, (our book catalog and more)
- Find a relevant book (e.g., from your assigned readings?)
- Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.
- 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:
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
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.
