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Subject Headings

When searching by subject in the Library online catalog, use the following terminology:

1. Cooks - Biography
2. Women Cooks - Biography
3. Cooks - California - Biography
4. Cooks - United States - Biography
5. Hotels - United States - Biography
6. Hotels - Biography
7. Restaurateurs - Biography
8. You may also search by name, such as Hilton, Conrad

Books

Women chefs: A collection of portraits and recipes from California's culinary pioneers

Auguste Escoffier: Memories of my life

Life a la Henri: Being the memories of Henri Carpentier

A chef’s tale: A memoir of food, France, and America

Becoming a chef: With recipes and reflections from America’s
leading chefs

Kitchen confidential: Adventures in the culinary underbelly

MFK Fisher, Julia Child and Alice Waters: Celebrating the pleasures of the table

An appetite for life: The biography of Julia Child

The world of “Mr.Sheraton”

Silver spade: The Conrad Hilton story

Conrad Hilton, hotelier

The man who bought the Waldorf: The life of Conrad N.Hilton

Work is my play

Front please: Fifty years of hospitality: An autobiography

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen

Be a mensch

Marriot: The J.Willard Marriot story

Pizza Tiger

The indestructible crown: The life of Albert Pick Jr.

Cesar Ritz: Host to the world

The colonel: The captivating biography of the dynamic founder of a fast food empire

Pour your heart into it: How Starbucks built an empire
one cup at a time

A bed for the night: The story of the Wheeling bellboy, EM Statler and his remarkable hotels

Statler, Americas’ extraordinary hotelman

Frankly speaking: Trader Vic's own story

A time well spent: A biography of Jerome Brody

Waiting: True confessions of a waitress

Your host, Peter Gust: Of the Park Lane restaurant, his story

Throw away the key

Great restaurant innovators

Culinary Artistry

Videos

Videos are housed in a locked case neat the Circulation Desk. Students may check them out and view them in the Computer Lab. The following list is merely a small sample of the videos available.

Julia Child: An appetite for life - Video 0105

Heat of the Kitchen - Video 123

Conrad Hilton - Video 0106

J. Willard Marriot - Video 0108

Dave Thomas - Video 0109

Ray Kroc - Video 0107

Websites

What's Cooking? Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithonian
Find diary entrees, kitchen stories, a biography and if you visit The Kitchen, you will find more great information from Julia's world!

Cookery Biographies, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.
This index to the biographical entries related to cookery directs users quickly to a number of well known chef's biographies.

Who's Who in the Culinary World
Hosted by Foodreference.com., this site provides brief biographies on famous chefs, critics, cookbook authors, patrons, inventors, restaurant owners, etc.

Great Chefs
Provides recipes and chef biographies from the Great Chefs TV shows. It also has a shopping section that features Great Chefs cookbooks and videos.

Biographies of chefs amateur and professional
Biographies of peoples from around the world who cook and most of who also have some type of web presence.

Extreme Chefs
Biographies of contemporary chefs.

World Culinary Institute: Visit the Masters
Brief biographies on James Beard, Escoffier, Fernand Point and Julia Child.

Biography.com
Biography.com is the online destination of A&E s popular, award-winning documentary series, Biography, and the new digital network, and The Biography Channel. Search using the name of the person.

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