Name of presentation

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Information Resources forFood, Culture
Lifestyles
HKIEd Library
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Food Culture

• Everyone eats from birth to end
• What is food?
• How is food related to your life?
• Food study has multiple dimensions

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Food study involves different subjects
Anthropology
Sociology
Linguistics
Nutrition
History
Culture
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Example Food and Language

• Two Chinese pronunciations of Tea have made
  their way into other languages around the world

Chá
Tê
English French Spanish Italian German Dutch Indone
sian Malay
Japanese Korean Thai Arabic Hindi Greek Czech Swed
ish
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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

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Encyclopedia

• 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

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Example

• 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

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General Works

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

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Useful Call No. Range
Subject Call No.
Manners and customs. Eating and drinking GT2850
Food processing and manufacture TP368 - 456
Nutrition. Foods and food supply TX341 - 641
Food preferences TX357
Cookery TX642 - 840
Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service TX901-946.5
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Example

• 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

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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

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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!
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Local TV Programmes (EdVideo)

• Video-On-Demand service
• Available in WMV format

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Local TV Programmes (EdVideo)

• Keywords food, drink, ??, ??
• Examples
• Variety is the spice
• Beyond foodways
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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
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Databases

• Find articles on How sushi becomes a globalized
  food?
• Try Academic Search Premier
• Keywords sushi, globalization
• Search
• Title
• Abstract
• Subject
• All Text

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Internet Resources
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World Food Habitshttp//lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/

• References of food habits of different regions

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Bibliography on Food and Culturehttp//www.utexa
s.edu/courses/stross/bibliographies/foodbib.htmht
tp//www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/publish/culture.pdf
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Ask your librarian _at_ Library Information
Counter Tel [phone] Email libinfo_at_ied.edu.hk