The Food Encyclopedia: Over 8,000 Ingredients, Tools, Techniques and People

I have two of these books one for each of two houses. It stays on the island all the time and every day I open it to a random page and read about several things. It is amazing how much you can learn by doing this. Great book, very informative and not just a book with recipes. Good job Jacques L. Rolland

Excellent food reference: gives history and usage. Without a doubt, the best, most extensive source on foods that I have ever encountered.

I like this book. I use it fairly frequently. It's a great resource for finding information on foods that you are unfamiliar with.

very heavy-poundage is not perfection !!- but okay book regarding food and variations of cooking terms, meat parts, coffee, salt and i'm making it sound much more interesting than it is. 8000 articles, yes, but on 700 pages !! so, it will give you a few easy pitches to swing at but you won't see the Major League stuff !! that's what I was looking for. I lost a book that was the most excellent book for everything about food and still can't find it I guess . sorry it's not the best review for a book but there you are !!

Purchased the Food Encycloedia, so I would have a reference book for my library that was unique. I have numerous cookboks and dictionaries, but this book contains just about everything about food, and what you would need to cook it, grow it etc. Nicely illustrated. Its a great reference book and I purchased another one to give to my newly wed son and his wife instead of bringing a bottle of wine for dinner. This will last them much longer and just like me I know once you have it, you will use it to see, if its got a reference for those gooseberries, one of your recipes calls for and you never heard of. Great reference book for food and things you would use to process same. Gives you a little history lesson too, very interesting, Lila Hamilton

Wonderful book, exceptional quality. Must for everyone hungry for a deeper knowledge of the essentials of every ingredient!

I received this book today as a Christmas gift after suggesting to my wife that it would make a fine gift. I was about to roast a chicken today and looked for tips thinking that I might learn something new or of use. What a waste. It has about 13 items listed for chicken, and nowhere does it offer any tips on preparing the many chicken dishes one can prepare.. I wasn't expecting a recipe book but was hoping to find tips and instructions on the preparation of basic home style dishes. I don't know who would find this tome of any use at all. I can find what a roaster is by just doing an internet search for roaster. This is something you'd expect to find in the bookstores bargain bin and even then it would be a waste of money. Door stop it is. If it wasn't Christmas I'd be P'd O.

Very informative book.