Food Reference & Preservation

See also Food Glossaries.

Selected Books

For additional books on preserving food, search the catalog under Canning and Preserving and Food Encyclopedias.

	(Ball)Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today A comprehensive guide to safe canning and preserving at home, including instructions for beginners, tips for experienced cooks and 400 recipes. Written by experts from a company specializing in home canning product. TX601.C635 2006x
	Bittman, Mark How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food Nationally known cooking authority Mark Bittman shows readers how to prepare great food for all occasions using simple techniques, fresh ingredients, and basic kitchen equipment in this relaxed, straightforward approach to cooking. TX714.B573 1998
	Corriher, Shirley Cookwise: the Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking Can you tell whether a recipe will work before you cook it? You can if you really know what's cooking. In the long-awaited CookWise, food sleuth Shirley Corriher tells you how and why things happen in cooking. TX714.C6917 1997
	Cox, Jeff, 1940- The Organic Cook's Bible: how to select and cook the best ingredients on the market This is a useful reference for its list of fruits and vegetables and how to cook them even if you are not an organic food enthusiast. TX741.C68 2006x
	Davidson, Alan The Oxford Companion to Food The 2,650 alphabetical entries include information on specific foods, cooking terms, culinary tools, countries, traditions, and biographies of chefs and cookbook authors. The entries for countries cover foods, habits, and holidays with special foods. rq TX349.D36 2006
	Green, Aliza Starting with Ingredients: Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Cook OK. What do we have in the refrigerator? This A to Z compendium of ingredients and recipes is a tome to rival Larousse Gastronomique. TX714.G74946 2006x
	McGee, Harold On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious. TX651.M27 2004
	Peterson, James What's a Cook to Do?: An illustrated guide to 484 essential tools, tips, techniques, & tricks James Peterson has written many comprehensive cooking guides for the serious chef. In this recent book he shares his secrets with the rest of us. TX651.P484 2007
	Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning "Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation." This was originally published in France in 1992 as Conserves Naturelles des Quatre Saisons by the gardeners & farmers of Terre Vivante, proponents of organic gardening/living. TX601.C64313 2007x
	Rolland, Jacques L. and Carol Sherman The Food Encyclopedia: Over 8000 Ingredients, Tools, Techniques and People An illustrated encyclopedia that is useful for foreign terms and ingredients (like arracacha). It also includes biographies of significant chefs and cookbook authors. Surprisingly enjoyable to read. q TX349.R564 2006x
	Wolke, Robert L. What Einstein Told his Cook 2: the Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science This is the sequel to What Einstein Told his Cook: Kitchen Science Explained. TX652.W6432 2005x

Websites

Pennsylvania

• Penn State: Home Food Preservation Database
  http://foodsafety.cas.psu.edu/preserve.html
  Use this database to search the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning You can also browse the 1994 USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning

United States

• National Center for Home Food Preservation
  http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/
  The National Center for Home Food Preservation at the University of Georgia is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation. Look here for jam recipes.
• Food Reference Website
  http://www.foodreference.com/
  A website that contains Food Articles, Facts and Trivia, Kitchen Tips, Food Quotes, Who’s Who, Historic Events, Recipes, Poems & Humor, Crossword Puzzles, Food Art & Posters, Book Reviews, Kitchen Store, Cooking Schools, Food & Wine Tours, and Daily Food News.
• Food-Resource
  http://food.oregonstate.edu/
  A database of links to web resources for all types of food products, created by Oregon State University. It also contains bibliographies for those products.
• HomeCanning Online
  http://www.homecanning.com/
  From the makers of Kerr and Ball canning supplies.