Aaahhhh, can you smell it?

Some cooks have begun to prepare for the family feast. Pumpkin pies are baking. Cranberries are popping for the sauce. Cinnamon scents the air. If you haven't begun, it's not too late to find just the right recipe to recreate your holiday memory.

I've talked about finding recipes in ProQuest and Ebsco. You can type the ingredient in the search box and limit the search to recipes. Both resources let you print, save and e-mail.

We have a sizable print collection of cooking books to support our Culinary programs. I want a book that could be used right now. With both ebrary and EBSCO books offering the download option, the cookbooks in those electronic collections become incredibly handy. I've talked about how once you've opened a book in either collection, you may search the full text of every book in the collection.

A search for cookbook while limiting the search to the Electronic Books, retrieved 75 titles with cookbook somewhere in the text (title or subject or description). I selected the first EBSCO title and then searched for cranberries. That full text search pulled up 65 titles. Interesting to see the mix of science, bar tending, health, and cooking information from a full text search for cranberries. Now to pick a title and search within that particular book to see what I can find about cooking with cranberries!

Sometimes the searching is just as satisfying as the finding. Happy Thanksgiving. I'll be back on Monday.


-kss

To use ProQuest and Ebsco in GALILEO get the current password from your Georgia librarian.

To use the e-book collections off campus, get the login information from your CTC librarian. Don't forget most campus libraries will be closed after 8pm tonight until Monday morning.