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- Online catalog
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- Academic Search CompleteFind articles in all subject areas in over 17,000 journals and magazines, with full text for most. Updated daily. Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present.
- CQ ResearcherExplores a single controversial issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to the environment, health, education and science and technology. 1991 to present.
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Other Web Sites
- Crescent City Farmers Market"...the Market is a not-for-profit project of the ECOnomics Institute, housed at Loyola University's Twomey Center for Peace through Justice. The ECOnomics Institute seeks to initiate and promote ecologically-sound economic development in the Greater New Orleans region."
- Environmental Working Group"...a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food."
- Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook ProjectFrom Michigan State University Libraries and the Michigan State University Museum, an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century.
- Food and Nutrition Information CenterFrom the U.S. National Agricultural Library.
- Food TimelineListing of when foods were first used, with links to short articles about them.
- Food: Transforming the American Table, 1950-2000An online component of a Smithsonian Institution exhibit.
- Menus: The Art of DiningAlmost 1700 online historic menus from restaurants from Italy, France and the United States from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- New Orleans Food & Farm Network"Sorks with individuals, communities and growers to support sustainable growing practices and to ensure equal access to safe, nutritious, enjoyable food."
- New York Public Library Menu CollectionOver 40,000 menus covering 1851 to 2008 from all over the world.
- Nutrient DatabaseU.S. Department of Agriculture
- Nutrition NavigatorFrom Tufts University Center on Nutrition Communication, School of Nutrition Science and Policy: online rating and review guide for nutrition information on the web. No longer kept up to date.
- Organic Food ProductionFrom the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library.
- Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and CookbooksCollection of digitized cookbooks from the University of Iowa.
- This Week in ChemistryAbstracts of the week's chemistry research. From the Compound Interest website.
- Weight Loss Products and Programs.From Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Program. Lists various weight reducing programs with very brief characteristics, strengths, and comments on each.
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