California

California State University at Fresno–Henry Madden Library, Fresno, CA

http://csufresno.edu/library

Reference Desk: (559) 278-2174

Relevant holdings are part of the library’s Viticulture and Oenology Collection.

City College of San Francisco–Alice Statler Library, San Francisco, CA

http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/en/library/about-library/library-locations/statler.html

Phone Inquiries: (415) 239-3460

This collection supports the curricula of the City College of San Francisco’s hotel and restaurant program. Resources include books, periodicals, videos, CDs, and software related to the hospitality and restaurant industries. Large pamphlet and menu collection.

The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

http://www.huntington.org

Phone Inquiries: (626) 405-2100

Collection is composed primarily of British and American books published before 1900. Strong in English Renaissance, medieval manuscripts, and incunabula. Applications from “serious scholars” only are considered. (More information on who may apply avaliable at http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=586).

Los Angeles Public Library–Science, Technology and Patents Department, Los Angeles, CA

http://www.lapl.org/central

Phone Inquiries: (213) 228-7272

Library holds one thousand Southern California menus and the Fritzch Collection of five hundred early cookbooks. Collection strengths include California cookery, food technology, and institutional cookery.

Menu Collection is online and searchable at http://www.lapl.org/resources/en/menu_collection.html.

San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA

http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library

Phone Inquiries: (619) 236-5800

Collection strengths include hospitality and restaurant management magazines dating from the nineteenth century to present. Large collection of pamphlets and menus.

Stanford University – Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford, CA

http://library.stanford.edu

Phone Inquiries: (650) 725-1064

Much of collection focuses on agriculture, food security, and sustainability. Most special collections are in the Green Library. Many volumes in East Asian languages are housed in Meyer Library.

The University of California at Berkeley Libraries, Berkeley, CA

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu

Reference Inquiries: (510) 642-6657

Special Collections: (510) 642-6481

Collection includes the Bransten Coffee and Tea Collection, an oral history series on California winemakers, and the records of Chez Panisse.

The University of California at Davis Library, Davis, CA

http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu

Reference Desk: (530) 752-9862

The collection supports the university’s wine technology and agriculture programs. In addition, Davis’s Special Collections Library holds eight hundred Chinese cookery volumes. The A. W. Noling Hurty-Peck Collection consists of over six thousand items, including books, pamphlets, and ephemera related to bottling and beverage making. Temperance and Prohibition Collection consists of pamphlets, speeches, and propaganda relating to the movements.

The University of California at San Diego–Mandeville Special Collections Library, La Jolla, CA

http://libraries.ucsd.edu

Phone Inquiries: (858) 534-3336

Collection includes the American Institute of Food and Wine Collection, which began with the Simon-Lowenstein Collection of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century European cookery books. More recent acquisitions focus on the foodways of Asia, Mexico, Latin America, California, and the American West.

Wine Institute Library, San Francisco, CA

http://www.wineinstitute.org/company/library

Phone Inquiries: (415) 512-0151

Collected volumes focus on wine appreciation and the California wine industry. Large photo archive of the history of the California wine industry and a digitized historical wine label collection. Access requires prior appointment.