Culinary Indexing
Special Interest Group
of the
American Society for Indexing

The First International Indexing Special Interest Group



Resource Links

Culinary SIG mailing list
Culinary SIG eGroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CulinarySIGlistserv
Index-L archives
http://www.indexpup.com/index-list/index.html

Professional Indexing Associations
American Society for Indexing (ASI)
http://www.asindexing.org/
Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB)
http://www.asaib.org.za/
Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI)
http://www.aussi.org/
Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada/Société canadienne pour l'analyse de documents (IASC/SCAD)
http://www.indexingsociety.ca/
http://www.indexingsociety.ca/accueil.html (French version)
Society of Indexers (SI) [UK]
http://www.indexers.org.uk/

Indexing Special Interest Groups (this list contains only SIGs which have a Web site. For information on other SIGs, please see the ASI page on SIGs).
Business
http://www.businessindexing.org
Gardening/Environmental Science
http://www.bioindexing.org/
History/Archaeology
http://www.indextohistory-archaeology.org/index.html
Politics/International Relations
http://www.wave.net/upg/pisig/index.htm
Science/Medicine
http://www.scimedindexers.org/
Society for Technical Communication Indexing SIG
http://www.stcsig.org/idx/index.html
Sports-Fitness
http://www.sports-fitnessindexing.org
Web Indexing
http://www.web-indexing.org/

Professional Culinary Associations
International Association of Culinary Professionals
http://www.iacp.com/
Guild of Food Writers
http://www.gfw.co.uk/
James Beard Foundation
http://www.jamesbeard.org/
Web Food Pros
http://webfoodpros.com
Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust
http://www.oldwayspt.org
Chowhound.com
http://chowhound.com

Dictionaries and Thesauri
Cafe Creosote Dictionary of Cooking Terms: searchable dictionary
http://www.cafecreosote.com/dictionary.php3
The Cook's Thesaurus: Site has substitutes and alternate names for thousands of ingredients.
http://www.foodsubs.com/
English-American recipe translator
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mbishop/engfood.html
Epicurious Eating Dictionary: "The Food Lover's Companion" - over 4,000 terms
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/
Global Gourmet: Cooking measures and conversions calculator
http://www.globalgourmet.com/cgi-bin/hts?convcalc.hts
Chef's Corner: Glossary of Culinary Terms
http://www.ddc.com/cheferic/gloss.htm
Hormel Foods Glossary of Kitchen and Food Terms
http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp?listkey=1
Recipe link: Huge collection of links/conversions/recipes
http://Kitchenlink.com

(Specific) Food and Ingredient Glossaries
Beer terminology
http://www.azcentral.com/home/beer/articles/guide.html
Chocolate and baking terminology glossary (from Godiva Chocolate)
http://www.godiva.com/recipes/chocolate_trivia.asp#glossary
Coffee Glossary
http://www.gardfoods.com/coffee/coffee.glossary.htm
Spice Pages, Gernot Katzer's: Site contains several "indices"
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/
Tea FAQ from Rec.food.drink.tea
http://pages.ripco.net/~c4ha2na9/tea/faq.html
Whisky glossary
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/glossary.html

Publishers and Writers' Helpers
Bowker: links to Books-in-Print; Literary Marketplace etc.
http://www.bowker.com
list of publishers: lists tons of publishers, try under topic: food
http://www.lights.com/publisher
National Writer's Union
http://www.nwu.org/
Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com
Writing-World: has some good links to writers resources: dictionaries and more
(includes much of the content from the former Inkspot)
http://www.writing-world.com

Cookbook Reviews
Appetite for Books: Professional Cookbook Reviews
http://www.books-for-cooks.com/cookbook_reviews.html

Other:
Busy Cooks: Tips, tricks, shortcuts, mixes, and more
http://busycooks.about.com/food/busycooks/
Cooking.com
http://www.cooking.com
Food TV
http://www.foodtv.com/
The Hunger Site: Donate food for free
http://www.thehungersite.com
Slow Food: The antidote to fast food
http://www.slowfood.com