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The
Ocean County Library has cookbooks of every description.
If your hobby is cooking or you need to get
a meal together quickly, or if you like to bake,
fry, steam, dip, dice or nuke, we have the book
for you.
Try
a Subject search in our catalog
to find what you are looking for.
Examples:
Chinese cooking, low-fat cooking, cooking vegetables,
milk-free cooking, Thai cooking, easy menu ethnic
cookbooks
Food
Magazines
Take
advantage of the many varied food magazines at your
favorite branch. Or to find a special recipe or
menu or article about food, click on Magazine
Search
on the library’s home page. With Magazine Search
you can access full text articles from a large selection
of food magazines.
Epicurious
Food
Searchable database of over 5,000 recipes plus restaurant
and cookbook reviews.
Holiday entertainment suggestions and recommendations
for wine, beer plus recipes for over 250 cocktails.
Guide on how to serve and eat everything
and online editions of Bon Appetit and Gourmet.
The
Food
Network
The Food Network includes a recipe and menu search,
TV show recipes and schedules, celebrity chefs and
hosts, video demonstrations and more.

Global
gourmet
You can search for international recipes and
cooking traditions plus background information such
as cultural, historical and geographical influences
on this great site.
Cooking measures and conversion calculators
are included.
SOAR
The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes has more
than 66,000 recipes. They are searchable by keyword
or topic.
Ethnic dishes are searchable by country.
Fat
Free: The
low fat
vegetarian archives
Along with thousands of recipes, this site includes
information about low fat and vegetarian diets.
vegsource.com
Includes over 5,000 vegetarian recipes, up-to-date
health and diet information and up-to-date vegetarian
restaurant recommendations.
CyberDiet
Recipes,
sample menus, nutritional information for fresh
or packaged food are all here. Try the
“Daily
FoodPlanner”
to plan healthy meals.
Meals
for
you
Search for individual recipes or complete meal plans
by nutritional content, also look up dietary exchange
information.
Dine.com
Dine.com
claims to have more than 80,000 restaurant reviews.
You may search restaurants by name, type,
city or zip.
New
York Today
Links to restaurants by keyword, type and/or
locations - has a small blurb and price range.
Oster.com
Great tips for hosting holiday parties and other
special occasion parties. This site includes information
on party planning and creating a timeline, decorating,
recipes, and tricks of the trade. Use the drop down
list to pick an event.
Etiquette for
Today
Find advice from Peggy Post on etiquette for
your family gatherings and celebrations.
Got
questions? We have answers!

Researched
and Compiled by T. Alberts
Edited by C. Paulson
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