Local community organisations, clubs, courses and programmes
Food and drink
We have resources to help cooks and food lovers - from cookbooks to food history, and food related glossaries.
BiblioCommons lists
These booklists feature staff picks of the best food related resources:
- New Zealand baking recipe books
- New Zealand seafood and wildfood cookbooks
- New Zealand’s top cooks
- Canterbury cooks and cookbooks
- Top 10 New Zealand cookbooks
- New Zealand cuisine
Search our catalogue
Search for cooking or cookbooks. We also have children’s cookbooks and resources on cooking for teenagers.
National cuisines
Library resources
- Cookery courses and groups
- Search CINCH our community information directory for local cooking courses.
- Food, wine and cooking
- Browse websites listed in our Internet Gateway.
Our web pages
- Learning to cook
- Brewing, wine making and distilling
- Alternative diets
- School lunches
- The food we love – the tastes of New Zealanders
- Festive food
- Food issues and ethics
- Cooking: a teen survival skill
Gardening
Health
Food words
If you don’t know your al dente from your au bain marie and if you’re unsure whether to buy pancetta or pak choi, you may want to have a look at a cooking glossary. Search the catalogue for food dictionaries and glossaries. The Source also features the following food-related resources:
- Culinary Arts Collection
- Recipes and culinary industry information for recreational cooks and professional chefs alike.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Over 600 articles on food and its place in human culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini. Ed. Solomon H. Katz. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003. From The Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - Food ingredients
- The BBC’s excellent A to Z of food ingredients.
- Epicurious food dictionary
- A dictionary from the long standing food website.
