LibGuides: Culinary Technology & Baking and Pastry Arts: Websites

Statistics & Demographics

Demographic & Market Research Database

Allows you to create a list of companies by industry and geography.

Data-Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) This link opens in a new window
Find data about U.S. companies. Identify company ownership and sales volume. Research local businesses and markets.

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If you know the name of the business, type it in "Company Name" on the basic search page. If you want to generate a list of possible businesses, choose the "Custom Search" tab.

The two search criteria to use are "Business Type" and "Geography."

Use the "Keyword/SIC/NAICS" option to get the types of businesses you need; then choose the geographic limiter, depending on how far you are willing to travel to conduct your interview.

General Websites

Epicurious
Recipe-heavy website that is the most comprehensive culinary site on the Web.
Food in Every Country
This website provides detailed information on the culinary traditions of a wide range of countries, as well as recipes that users can easily make at home.
Great Chefs
This Great Chefs website companion to the TV program that is a priceless archive of cooking technique videos from classically-trained chefs, together with their biographies, and their signature Video-On-Demand cooking techniques, dishes, and recipes. Unlike cooking competition shows, Great Chefs provides free Video-On-Demand cooking techniques that can be watched over and over.
Grub Street
Grub Street is the award-winning food and restaurant website from the team behind New York magazine, covering food trends and the politics of food, high-profile and rising chefs, and important news from the New York restaurant world.
StarChefs
Its mission is to catalyze culinary professionals’ success and give them the tools they need to overcome their specific challenges. In addition to featuring top chefs, pastry chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists, StarChefs.com’s Culinary JobFinder is the leading job board connecting culinary and hospitality professionals to careers in the foodservice industry. StarChefs.com™ features more than 35,000 published pages of original, chef-focused culinary content and generates traffic of 4.322 million page views, and 1.927 million unique visitors and was nominated for Best Web Site for Food and Nutrition by the James Beard Foundation.

Culinary Technology & Baking and Pastry Arts

Statistics & Demographics

Demographic & Market Research Database

General Websites

Data-Axle (formerly ReferenceUSA) Tutorial