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General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac) - A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.  Go Mobile with Access My Library. Audience: Middle School, High School, Higher Education, General Public.
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MasterFILE Premier - specifically for public libraries, this database provides full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with full text as far back as 1975.  Also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Check out the EbscoHost Mobile App.

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All Recipes - Recipes, meal ideas and cooking advice.
Birdseye - Search their site or the whole Internet for recipes
Chef 2 Chef Portal - portal to over 280,000 recipes, lots of internatioal sites
Cooking Light - Good and good for you recipes and more
The Cook's Thesaurus - Definitions and substitutions
The Cookstr.com - top recipes from the world’s best chefs and cookbook authors
CopyKat Creations - copykat recipes from your favorite restaurants
Epicurious.com - 1000's Recipes including recipes from partners Bon Appetit and Gourmet Magazines
Fanny Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cookbook, 1918
Food TV - all the good stuff from the cable tv channel
HGTV - Food and Lifestyle
Indian Recipes Index - recipe of the week plus lots of links to food pages!
June Meyer's Hungarian Recipes - authentic heirloom recipes and index
Land O' Lakes Recipes - an archive of recipes including eating lite and a planner
Mangia! - authentic Italian recipes from just about every region
Martha Stewart's Cooking and Entertaining
Recipes Archive - An archive of thousands of recipes from folks all over the world
Recipe Source - The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes with over 38,000 recipes. It groups recipes by world region and country, holidays, and unusual events like cooking with kids, Star Trek, and Medieval recipes. Many great recipes for sandwiches and camping fare. In addition to eatable recipes this site includes recipes for dog and cat food, gift ideas and recipes for hair and skin care.
Southern Living - Food from the magazine
Still Tasty? - find out if that leftover pizza is still ok to eat or if its ok to drink the milk after the expiration date! This great site has all your food storage and spoilage answers.
USDA Food and Nutrition - Food safety, farmers markets, canning, recalls, food assistance and more
The Vegetarian Resource Group - Not just recipes!

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