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Culinary Arts (CA): CA Web Resources

A Secchia Institute for Culinary Education program

Menu Collections

The American Menu
a collection of US menus with essays that set them in their historical context
Carlin's Historical Menus - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Cornell University Menu Collection
Culinary Institute of America Menus Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection
Louisiana Menu Collection - Tulane University
Menupages
Menus from restaurants in US metro areas
Menus - the Art of Dining from UNLV
Menus d'hier
French
Menus from Ship to Shore: Naval History and Heritage Command
National Restaurant Association Menus Collection at Johnson & Wales
Northwestern University Transportation Menus
381 historic airline, ocean liner, and railroad menus, dating from 1928 to the present.
Royal Menus
University of Washington Historical Menus Collection
What's On the Menu? New York Public Library

Culinary Arts History

Culinary Arts Museum
Johnson & Wales University, Providence RI
Food in the West: A Timeline, 1700-2001
"culinary-themed timeline created by Utah State's "Foundations of Western Civilization" students ... learn about major culinary trends -- including trends related to food, drink, feasts, and agriculture." Scout Report
Food Timeline
Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts.

Recipes

Recipe sites abound - here are a few of the most popular!

BBC Food
Cookbooks and Home Economics
from Open Archive - thousands of old / antique / vintage cookbooks as well as home economics texts from the past
Culinary.net
Epicurious
Food Network
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks
handwritten collection of American and European recipes from the 1600s to the 1960s - from the University of Iowa

Ingredients

Food ID Handouts
These Food ID Handouts are intellectual property of The Culinary Institute of America and from the pages of The Professional Chef®, 9th edition.
Gernot Katzer’s Spice Pages
Prospector - Food Beverage, & Nutrition
sourcing guide for ingredients - with connections to suppliers. Free logon is required and may take 1-2 working days to be enabled.

Famous Chefs