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Overall Guide to Library Culinary Collections International Association of Culinary Professionals A Selective Guide to Culinary Library Collections in the United States by Madge Griswold http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/madge/LibraryReport.pdf (81 pages, pdf file) Our collection: You are here. The Peacock-Harper Culinary Collection Hosted by the Virginia Tech library, Blacksburg, Virginia http://www.culinarycollection.org/ Other Historical Culinary Arts Collections University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive; thousands of items from the 16th to 20th centuries> http://www.clements.umich.edu/culinary/index.html Culinary Archives & Museum, Johnson and Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island http://www.culinary.org/ Core Historical Literature of Home Economics, Cornell University HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. http://chlhe.mannlib.cornell.edu/ University of Denver, Margaret Husted Culinary Collection http://www.penlib.du.edu/about/collections/SpecialCollections/husted.cfm University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections Szathmary Culinary Archives http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/szathmary.htm Indiana University Lilly Library Food and Drink Collections Mrs. John T. Gernon's American cookbooks form the core of this collection. http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/index.html Library of Congress Graphic art, papers, and cookbook collection of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/183.html Michigan State University Libraries' Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/ Michigan State University Libraries' Cookery Collection http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/cookery/aboutcoo.htm University of Pennsylvania Household Words: An Exhibition from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/aresty/aresty1.html Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives Sinclair Jerseyana Cookbooks http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/sinclair/sinclair_cook_books_main.shtml Tulane University, Nadine Vorhoff Library Newcome College, Center for Research on Women The Culinary Collection http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/text/culinary.html Kansas State University Cookery Collection http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/spec/rarebooks/collections/cookery.html Campbell Library of the Academy of Food Marketing Specializes in works on the food industry. The collection consists of over 4,000 books and 275 serial publications. http://www.sju.edu/hsb/campbell/ Culinary Institute of America Conrad N. Hilton Library http://www.ciachef.edu/admissions/about/library.asp Los Angeles Public Library, Materials on Food and Drink http://www.lapl.org/resources/guides/food_drink.html New York Academy of Medicine Library, Historical Collections, Margaret Barclay Wilson Collection on Food and Cookery. Over 5,000 volumes and approximately the same number of pamphlets which document the history of cookery, gastronomy, nutrition and dietetics in the Western world. The materials appear in over 20 languages and range in date from A.D. 900 to the present. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/039.html New York Public Library Culinary History http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/culinary/ University of Pennsylvania "Household Words: An Exhibition from the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts" http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/aresty/aresty1.html Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe/Harvard: Culinary Collection http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/culinary.php Tulane University, Nadine Vorhoff Library Newcome College, Center for Research on Women http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/collections/culinary.htm Culinary History Groups Culinary Historians, master list http://foodhistorynews.com/linkhistorians.html Culinary Historians of Boston http://www.culinaryhistoriansboston.com/about.htm Culinary Historians of Chicago Contains links to a large number of other culinary history associations. http://www.culinaryhistorians.org/ Culinary Historians of New York http://culinaryhistoriansny.org/ Culinary Historians of Washington, DC (CHoW) http://www.chowdc.org/ Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin http://chew.wisconsincooks.org/ Food History Links, General Buckley's Food History Links http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/electives/foodlinks.html