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 Web resources

American Heart Association - provides lots of leaflets and other information.

Arbor Nutrition Guide - links to many food, nutrition and related web sites.

Ask The Dietician - resource links for dieticians & nutritionists and an extensive Question and Answer (Q&A) section.

Australian Iron Status Advisory Panel - offers guidelines for the management of iron deficiency in adults and children.

Cherikoff - recipes, information, menu ideas based around using the herbs, spices, fruits and other essential ingredients of an authentic Australian cuisine.

Cook's Thesaurus - a cooking encyclopaedia covering ingredients & kitchen tools. 

Culinary.net - recipes, news, information, photo gallery.

ehotelier.com - access pre-selected & categorized hotel-industry website links.

Events Australia - provides a range of Presentation Tools as well as news, etc.

Events NSW - provides an Event Starter Guide for people organising public, outdoor events.

Encyclopedia of Spices - lots of information from the Epicentre

Epicurious - television site providing recipes, food books and techniques.

Food & Nutrition - lots of links from HealthInsite.

Food Network - recipes, reference material, etc. from the Television Food Network.

Food Regulation - lots of links from HealthInsite.

Food Safety - lots of links from HealthInsite.

Food Safety Campaign - provides facts sheets & food safety tips, etc.

Food Science Australia - has a range of fact sheets, links and other resources.

Foods - lots of links from HealthInsite.

GamesInfo - archived sites for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Hospitality Magazine - keep up-to-date with the latest news.

HSC Online: Hospitality Resources: - information from by Charles Sturt University.

International Food Information Council (IFIC) - pamphlets on food and food safety.

Intute: Hospitality & Catering - UK site providing a wide range of links & resources.

Menulog - a comprehensive eating out guide offering a number of useful features.

Nutrition Australia - provides scientifically based nutrition information to encourage all Australians to achieve optimal health through food variety and physical activity. 

Nutrition and Dietetics - leading peer-reviewed journal specialising in nutrition & dietetics - abstracts from the latest edition as well as an archive section.

Nutrition Resources - from the Department of Health & Ageing.

Profitable Hospitality - US site providing a wide range of resources.

Recipes Around the World - from of the International Vegetarian Union (IVU).

TAFE Studylinks: Food & Beverage - access a wide range of websites.

TAFE Studylinks: Hospitality Management - access a wide range of websites  including hotel & accommodation sites.

The Food Channel - provides a wide range of information & resources.

Wine Australia - the official Internet venue of the Australian Wine Industry, contains information on the wineries and wine regions of Australia.

yourRestaurants - guide to restaurants around Melbourne & Sydney.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 20 April, 2007

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