Monday, September 26, 2011

How do I fix that dish?

Finding a recipe online is so simple. A search with Google pulls up innumerable recipe sites. A plethora of resources! One can even type 'recipe : ingredient' and find more information about using that single ingredient than you can imagine!

But what if, what if you were in a waiting area, perusing a magazine and you read the perfect recipe for a meal you were planning. Do you rip out the page? I hope not. Do you ask the office staff if they would copy the page for you or let you borrow the magazine? This is a viable option (and gracious towards others who use the waiting area). Yet, there's another option!

ProQuest has a search limiter for recipes.
Go to GALILEO
Get the current password from your Georgia librarian.
...Select databases A-Z
....Select P
......Select ProQuest
.........Select Advanced Search (link just above the right side of the search box)
....Change the drop down to Publication
....Type in the magazine title. If you aren't sure if ProQuest has the title you're looking for- go to the Publications link and search for the title. Click on the title and you can search within it! I found Southern Living, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Gourmet. There are thousands of other magazines.
....For the next search box, leave it Full text
....Type in the recipe title or ingredients
.....Scroll down to Document type- select recipe
...Search

All the recipes in that magazine with the specific ingredient or title are retrieved.
You can limit your search by year or issue, as well.

Happy hunting and cooking and enjoying.

-kss

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