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Where can I order a dna test for detailed information on African, Jewish, European or Native American origins?

http://www.aleb.org/

ALEB Agriculture-Led Export Business provides technical assistance and support to Egyptian food processing companies, ancillary service firms and associations in order to enhance global competitiveness and increase exports of processed foods.  ALEB is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a central component of the Growth through Globalization strategy to support Egypt’s private sector.

http://old.lib.ucdavis.edu/exhibits/food/

America the Bountiful is a site which discusses foods in America covering the 10 classic American foods and their role including: beef, chicken, turkey, pork, potatoes, corn, greens, wheat, beans and apples.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/food/

Ancient and Medieval Food is a history article for kids.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/

Anthropology Tutorials ushers readers through basic genetics and principles of evolution and introduces key hominid fossils. The cultural anthropology section explores topics such as kinship and social organization. Features include information, quizzes, virtual flash cards, videos, recordings of language samples, and an audio pronunciation guide.

http://www.palomar.edu/anthropology/#Anthropology%20Web%20Links

Anthropology Web Links has informational links on General Anthropology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguisitic anthropology, regional anthropology/archaeology and other information.

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The Archaeology Channel has audio commentaries, audio interviews, audio news from Archaeologica, kalapuya Creation Story. includes a variety of information and links regarding archaeology.

http://www.armchair.com/recipe/titanic1.html

Armchair World The Last Dinner on the Titanic has the last menu on the titanic.

http://food-culture.org/

Association for the Study of Food and Society is a multidisciplinary international organization dedicated to exploring the complex relationships among food, culture, and society. Its members, who approach the study of food from numerous disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as in the world of food beyond the academy, draw on a wide range of theoretical and practical approaches and seek to promote discussions about food that transgress traditional boundaries.

http://www.becominghuman.org/

Becoming Human is a journal in which narrator Johanson describes his discovery of what he calls "the ape that shook up man's family tree." This is a glossary, references, Web links, and a news section [including the March report of a skull that may unseat Lucy].

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/bibliographies/foodbib.htm

Bibliography on Food and Culture from The University of Texas lists many pertinent references.

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/

Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research has course and research center, selecting statistics, study project gallery, knowledge base, and evaluating web sites, as well as other information of use and interest to those work on the web.

http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/dotclear/index.php

the portal on carnivore ecology & conservation. has information, articles, links.

http://www.cheftalk.com

Chef Talk is a site for serious gourmets. Has recipes, food history, and an education center.

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/Almanack/resources/dateline/chronhdr.cfm

Colonial Williamsburg has information about the foods and food habits of that period. Very informative and visual site.

http://www.bu.edu/sth/archives/cahhome.html

Commission on Archives and History for the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church.

http://www.cooking-sites-directory.com/

CookingSites is a directory and search site of food related information. Theyhave assembled the best sites related to cooking. Find the products and information related to cooking that you are looking for in our directory. It contains a broad spectrum of food-related sites [information, kitchenware, recipes, applices, spices, sauces, cookbooks, etc.] including ethnic resources.

http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food1.html

Culinary History Time Line has listings and links to many of the important points in American culinary traditions & historic surveys, world surveys, and social and culture surveys.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/gen/ethnic.html

Cultural and Ethnic Food and Nutrition Education Materials: A Resource List for Educators by the Food and Nutrition Information Center.

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.html

Countries of the World has information on countries and maps, flags, definitions, geography, climate, codes, religion, seaport and airport codes.

http://www2.cr.nps.gov/gis/fgdc/CRWG.htm

Cultural Resources Mapping & Geographic Information Systems has a Cultural Resources Work Group whose mission is to develop, update and review recommendations for the collection and maintenance of spatial cultural resource data, as well as metadata for cultural resource data.

http://www.crossingcultures.ca

Crossing Cultures has information regarding products, recipes, free Indian Cooking Video, ABC croaching, newsletters and links. Has authentic cultural cooking kits and tea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine

Cuisine has information on a range of cuisines in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and other non-regional cuisines. There is information and discussion with links.

http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/ethnic_relig/ethnic.html

CY2005 Ethnic & Religious Dates has these listed for each month.

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ethnic_studies/NewFiles/FraLReso.html

Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University has links and resources.

http://www.worldwidewebfind.com/encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/e/et/ethnic_group.html

Ethnic group is part of a world wide web dictionary.

http://faostat.fao.org/

FAOSTAT are the links to FAO statistical databases. Includes: production, trade, food balance sheets, producer prices, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, Codex Alimentarious food quality control, fertilizer and pesticides, food aid shipments and more. A variety of other databases are available.

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/expeditions/

Field Museum Expeditions has a number of expedititions described.

http://www.fivims.org/index.jsp

FIVIMS is an inter-agency initiative to promote the development of information and mapping systems to gain an improved understanding of food insecurity and vulnerability.

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/

Food and Culture has a bibliography on food habits.

http://www.sirc.org/publik/food_and_eating_0.html

Food and Eating is an anthropological perspective by Robin Fox.

http://www.tagate.com/recipes/

Food Center has many recipes of spaghetti, tofu, chili, milk products, sauce, sea food, vegetarian food, Chinese, Mexican, Swedish, Italian, drinks and candy, kava. Also includes the food timelines 1872-1939 and 1940-2001.

http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/

Food History has a variety of articles on various aspects of the history of selected food products. Some such include: beef wellington, stollen, cookies, bakalava and more.

http://www.foodlineweb.co.uk

FoodLineWeb is the premier intelligence resource for the international food and drinks industry

http://www.foodmuseum.com/

The FOOD Museum Online has some history of foods and food-related products.

http://www.foodreference.com

The Food Reference Website has food reference and history articles, food trivia, food quotes, latest food reference newsletter, newsletter archives, food links, key west links and recipes in "printer friendly format".

http://www.foodtimeline.org/

Food Timeline has a time line for various food products in the history.

http://www.geocities.com/foodedge/timeline.htm

Twentieth Century Timeline has edibles & quaffables of when various products appeared.

http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/

Global Destinationsis part of Global Gourmet and has links to countries and regions.

http://www.gourmet.gr/greek-recipes/cuisine/?gid=1&nodeid=1

Gourmed has cuisines and recipes. Includes: albanian, Algerian, Croatan, Cyptan, Egyptian, French, Greek, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Libyan, Mediterranean, Moroccan, Serbian, Slovenian, spanish, Syrian, Tunisian, Turkish.

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cat_home.asp

gourmetsleuth.com has information on Gourmet Foods, including ethnic foods, cookware & tools, cooks tools, pots de creme collection, gifts, baskets, sets, and tableware & servinces. Has information on products and links.

http://www.factoryfarm.org

The Grace Factory Farm Project has the goal to eliminate factory farming in favor of a sustainable food production system which is healthful and humane, economically viable and environmentally sound.

http://www-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Grivetti.html

Grivetti, Louis has his web sites with the many articles listed that are related to food and culture and people. Includes links to some complete article.

http://history.hyperjeff.net

Histories has the history of science. This site emphasizes content.

http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/HistoryIndex.htm

History and Legends of Favorite Foods has the history of many different types of foods.

http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/

History of Eating Utensils has information on the various eating utensils.

http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijtwm/vol1n2/food.xml

The Internet Journal of Third World Medicine has an ariticle by Dindyal, S. and S. Dindyal. Accessed July 20, 2005. How Personal Factors, Including Culture and Ethnicity, Affect The Choices and Selection of Food We Make.

http://www.khaoula.com

Khaoula has the new look of north African women from Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, you can find your favorite recipe, wedding dress, cooking and more. Appears to be a newspaper/magazine.

http://wintercounts.si.edu/

Lakota Winter Counts of the national Anthropological Archives has archives of the Lakota people of the U.S. Great Plains. Has a collection of winter counts and anthropol,ogists and can analyze their iconography at the exhibit. The Lakota marked the passage of time by drawing pictures of memorable events on calendars known as winter counts. This online exhibit features a searchable database of Smithsonian winter count images, a cocumentary about Lakota history and culture, video interviews with Lakota people with personal connections to the winter-count-keeping tradition.

http://www.leitesculinaria.com/features/dining.html

Leite's Culinaria has the article of Dining Through the Decades with links and information.

http://food.oregonstate.edu/kelsey/lewis-clark.html

Lewis and Clark Expedition is a web page of links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups

List of Ethnic Groups on Wikipedia. An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a supposedly shared common genealogy or ancestry (Smith 1986). Henceforth, this list may include only groups whose members self-identify and/or are identified by others as members of an ethnic group.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html

Medieval/Renaisance Recipe Book. has many links of interest to those in this area.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

NationalGeographic.Com has their section regarding magazines, tv and film, news. Also sections on: Animals and Nature, History and Culture, Maps, News, Photography, Travel.

http://www.oldwayspt.org/

Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust has essays, calendars of events. Oldways is a young and growing non-profit organization with simple objectives: to promote healthy, clean foods and to encourage healthy eating.

http://www.ohs.org/

Oregon Historical Society has collections, education, programs, membership.

http://www.orst.edu/Dept/ehe/nu_diverse.htm

Oregon State University Extension Family and Community Development covers a variety of ways to deal with diverse issues. Includes some information on diversity.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/

OSSHE Cultural and Historical Atlas Resource Developed cooperatively between the University of Oregon Department of History, UO New Media Center and Department of Geography InfoGraphics Lab. All of the atlas resources contained in this site are original materials produced for this project.

http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/centrefooddrink/

Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink has information and ongoing information on activities. Incldues a link to other food-related sites worth looking at.

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/

Resources for the Anthropological Study of Food Habits has a listing of literature for a variety of different cultures regarding food habits.

http://rockart.uark.edu/

Rock Art in Arkansas includes human, animal, geometric, and abstract motifs rendered and carved, pecked, painted in a variety of styles.

http://www.rosettaproject.org/live

Rosetta Project s a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages. Our goal is to create the most broad and complete reference work on the languages of the world to date- a reference work of relevance for academic researchers and educators as well as native communities looking for materials in support of language revitalization work.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/cannibalism/5.html

Sexual Cannibalism is an orticle elucidating the possible sources of cannabism. Includes links to: historical perspective; divine hunger; survival cannibalism; criminal cannibalis; aggression cannibalism; ritualistic & epicurean cannibalism and other chapters.

http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/

SSDC University of California, San Diego has 361 internet sites of numeric socical science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.

http://www.slowfood.com

Slow Food International Movement is an international response to the effect fast food has on our society and life. It questions the validity of the fast food philosophy as an unconscious credo that erodes our culinary heritage in the guise of efficiency. Has membership, philosophy, articles, and such.

http://www.si.edu/

Smithsonian Institute has links to a description of places, people, products, and resources. Has links to culiinary history timeline.

http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/

Social Science Information Gateway has links to anthropology, business and management, economics, education, environmental science, European studies, geography, government policy, law, philosophy, politics, psychology, research tools and methods, social welfare, sociology, statistics, women's studies.

http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

the Food Timeline has a listing of the foodtimeline. Is extensive.

http://www.omhrc.gov/

The Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health from USDHHS. Includes overview, what's new, resources, meetings and conferences, grants/funding, HHS activities, state/local activities/ partner activities. Includes specific information on diseases.

http://www.usda.gov/ams/titlepag.htm

USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service.

http://www.usaid.gov/

US AID is the United States Agency for International Development.

http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/

National Center for Education, Diversity and Excellence.

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ot/guidebook/food.htm

Oregon Trail Guidebook has information on some food that the pioneers brought on the Oregon Trail.

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/

VirtualTourist has travel guides for Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Australia and Oceania, Africa, Caribbean and Central America, Middle East, Antarctica with individual countries and cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisines

Wikipedia main page of cuisines. Includes links to various countries.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ei.html

The World Factbook has appendixes, reference maps, notes and definitions, guide to country profiles, history of the world factbook, flags of the world and gallery of covers.

http://www.foodhabits.info/

World Food Habits Bibliography has references listed according to region and topics.

GOOGLE search for ethnic, food habit, anthropology, food and culture.

http://www.recipesource.com/

RecipeSource has recipes organized by ethnic cuisines by region and by type.

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http://food.oregonstate.edu/culture/eastwood1.pdf Eastwood Sisters: Anna Mary The letters reported here were found in the various "sisters" keepsakes. From both the files saved by David Crawford, ZoeAnn Holmes and Janet Dalton the were placed together and organized into those written by each sister. The first being placed here are the oldest sisters' letters, those of Sarah "Anna Mary". These letters by Anna Mary Eastwood Crawford explore life on the Kansas prairie through a series of letters beginning in 1927 and ending in 1950, with emphasis during the 1930's and 1940's. The letters during 1930, 1940, and 1950 reflect the particularly difficult life of a Southeastern Kansas school and life on a small farm. The letters after 1950 are more sporadic until the 1990's. http://food.oregonstate.edu/culture/eastwood2.pdf Eastwood Sisters" Verna JanetThe letters reported here were found in the various "sisters" keepsakes. From both the files saved by David Crawford, ZoeAnn Holmes and Janet Dalton the were placed together and organized into those written by each sister. The second being placed here are the youngest sisters' letters, those of Verna Janet Dalton These letters by Janet Eastwood Dalton explore life on the Kansas prairie through a series of letters beginning in the mid 1930s and ending in 2005, with emphasis during the late 1930s. The letters primarily emphasize the problems and role in obtaining a higher education at Pittsburg State University and family life. http://food.oregonstate.edu/culture/eastwood3.pdf Eastwood Sisters" Lora MargaretThe letters reported here were found in the various "sisters" keepsakes. From both the files saved by David Crawford, ZoeAnn Holmes and Janet Dalton the were placed together and organized into those written by each sister. The third being placed here are the middle sisters' letters, those of Lora Margaret Holmes. Although a number of the letters discuss her college days in the early 1930's. Also her teaching with the "2 year certificate" are included. She became married in 1935 and letters are sporadically included. There are many letters saved by her daughter from 1960-1990's. They reflect the trials of family life, which included caring for 70+ foster children during these years. http://food.oregonstate.edu/culture/eastwood4.pdf Eastwood LettersThe letters reported here were found in the various "sisters" keepsakes. From both the files saved by David Crawford, ZoeAnn Holmes and Janet Dalton the were placed together and organized into those written by each sister. These letters are primarily the Eastwood Sisters fathers letters. They start with 1900 teens and progress until his death. Most notable is the mention of the flu of 1918 and the letters on the chautauqua tent shows of the 1920's. Copies

Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2008.