1. Information Resources for Food, Culture & Lifestyles HKIEd Library

2. Food & Culture Everyone eats from birth to end What is food? How is food related to your life? Food study has multiple dimensions

3. Food study involves different subjects Sociology Nutrition Linguistics Anthropolog y Culture History

4. Example: Food and Language English French Spanish Italian German Dutch Indonesian Malay … Japanese Korean Thai Arabic Hindi Greek Czech Swedish … Chá Two Chinese pronunciations of “Tea” have made their way into other languages around the world Tê

5. Reference Works Provide background information or definition of specific topic Keywords  Food culture, food habits, cookery  Encyclopedia, Dictionary Some E-reference tools are available online

6. Cambridge world history of food Encyclopedia of food and culture Encyclopedia of food sciences and nutrition Foods & nutrition encyclopedia The Oxford companion to food The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America Encyclopedia

7. Why is the soft drink named 7 Up?  Search at Library Catalogue:  Keywords = encyclopedia food America  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America Example

8. General Works Useful Subject Headings Cookery Eating (Philosophy) Food habits Food preferences Diets Dinners and dining Drinking behavior Food consumption Food preferences Gastronomy Vegetarianism

9. Useful Call No. Range SubjectCall No. Manners and customs. Eating and drinkingGT2850 Food processing and manufactureTP368 - 456 Nutrition. Foods and food supplyTX341 - 641  Food preferences  TX357 CookeryTX642 - 840 Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service TX901-946.5

10. Is there any books on Globalization of Chinese foods?  Search at Library Catalogue  Keywords = globali?ation AND (china OR chinese) AND food*  The globalization of Chinese food  China to Chinatown : Chinese food in the West Example

11. Media Resources Media Resources Collection: DVD, VCD, VHS … Example: Any DVD/VCD on religious aspects of food?  Search at Library Catalogue  Keywords = food* AND religio*  Limit to Media Resources Collection  Limit to DVD/VCD format  A world of food : tastes & taboos in different cultures

12. Media Resources Collection  A world of food : tastes & taboos in different cultures  Bugs for breakfast : food & culture  Culture and cuisine  Foodessence  Global eating : learning from other cultures  Slow food revolution  Sushi : the spirit of embracing nature Tell me what you eat  The real food of China  Why we eat, what we eat!  謝天 : 臺灣人的米食文化 …

13. Local TV Programmes (EdVideo) Video-On-Demand service Available in WMV format

14. Local TV Programmes (EdVideo) Keywords = food*, drink*, 食物, 飲食 … Examples:  Variety is the spice  Beyond foodways  天下一碗  世界在廚房  滋味人生  香港故事 [2007]  涼藥 苦口  食古 不化  香港故事 [2008]  米  東江逆流  燒出好滋味

15. E-Databases Academic Research Library Arts, business, education, humanities, psychology and sciences etc Academic Search Premier Multi-disciplinary, covers all aspect of academic study Humanities Full Text All areas of humanities studies 中文電子期刊服務 (Taiwan) 人文學、社會科學、自然科學、應用科學、醫學與生命科 學等 中國期刊全文數據庫 (China) 教育與社會科學綜合輯, 文史哲輯

16. Databases Find articles on How sushi becomes a globalized food? Try Academic Search Premier Keywords = sushi, globalization Search  Title  Abstract  Subject  All Text

17. Internet Resources

18. World Food Habits World Food Habits http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/ References of food habits of different regions

19. Bibliography on Food and Culture Bibliography on Food and Culture http://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/bibliographies/foodbib.htm http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/publish/culture.pdf

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