Please consider hunting down food history sources at any archive or library near you; perhaps you can locate manuscript cookbooks, old menus, account ledgers from a local grocery store, diaries from a "foodie" of the past, housekeeping magazines, provisions lists, or records for a local food producer. On the World Wide Web, visit http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html to find internet sites for archives around the globe or http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb to locate home pages for libraries worldwide. If you are planning to visit any of the places listed below, please remember that academic libraries often reduce their hours during school vacations.

American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts. www.theamericancenter.orgor write 1700 Soscol Ave, Suite 1, Napa, CA 94559, calling (707) 257-3606, or sending email to mail@theamericancenter.org.

City College of San Francisco : The Alice Statler Library www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Library/ . (415) 239-3460. During the school year, the library is open Mon - Thurs., 9 am - 4 pm, and Friday, 9 am - 3 pm; contact head librarian Ann Roberti with questions about the collections; address is City College of San Francisco, 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco CA 94112.

University of California at Davis: The Shields Library Department of Special Collections. Visit Monday through Friday, 10 am - 4 pm; make an appointment by phoning (530) 752-1621. www.lib.ucdavis.edu/speccoll/ Or write Dept. of Special Collections, Shields Library, UC Davis, 100 North West Quad, Davis, CA 95616-5292.

Los Angeles Public Library: The Rare Books Department rarebook@lapl.org or by phoning (213) 228-7350. Questions about the collection can be addressed to department manager Romaine Ahlstrom, phone number (213) 228-7241; www.lapl.org/central/rb.html.

University of California at San Diego: The Mandeville Special Collections Library houses the American Institute of Wine and Food's Culinary Collection spcoll@ucsd.edu, by phone: (619) 534-2533, or by mail: UCSD Libraries 0175S, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175. view an online catalog wwww.orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/.

Sonoma County Library:Healdsburg Regional Library and The Wine Library. call (707) 433-3773 or contact Bo Simons, Wine Librarian, by email at bo@sonoma.lib.ca.us http://www.sonoma.lib.ca.us/wine.html; address is Piper and Center Streets, Healdsburg CA 95448.

Napa Valley Wine Library: St. Helena Public Library, 1492 Library Lane. www.shpl.org/winlib.html; contact the wine library at napawine@fcs.netor (707) 963-5244. For info on collection sponsor, Napa Valley Wine Library Association, write to PO Box 328, St. Helena, CA 94574, call (707) 963-5145, or send email to info@napawinelibrary .

Seattle Public Library: Business and Technology Department; Central Library at 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104-1193. www.spl.lib.wa.us/central/central.html .

University of Washington: Pacific Northwest Collection, Special Collections Department of the Allen Library, Box 352900, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2900 for info;. www.lib.washington.edu/Specialcoll/ or email speccoll@u.washington.edu