The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge Review
Wow no one is a bigger food snob than me but there was not one useful food term left out of this dictionary. I looked and looked and looked. I had some issues with the Broccolini segment but overall a grand job by all involved. This is a much better book than United States of Arugula! Oh and I did find one omission in the " W " section the word "wine" is not there. Strange since that is a vital part of any food snobs meal. Nevertheless I have read every food book on the market and this is a STEAL at these prices and real handy when you need to know your Quince from your Quinoa!
The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge Overview
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock Snob’s Dictionary--a delectable compendium of food facts, terminology, and famous names that gives ordinary folk the wherewithal to take down the Food Snobs--or join their zealous ranks.
Open a menu and there they are, those confusing references to “grass-fed” beef, “farmstead” blue cheese, and “dry-farmed” fruits. It doesn’t help that your dinner companions have moved on to such heady topics as the future of the organic movement, or the seminal culinary contributions of Elizabeth Drew and Fernand Point. David Kamp, who demystified the worlds of rock and film for grateful readers, explains it all and more, in The Food Snobs Dictionary.
Both entertaining and authentically informative, The Food Snob’ s Dictionary travels through the alphabet explaining the buzz-terms that fuel the food-obsessed, from “Affinage” to “Zest,” with stops along the way for “Cardoons,” “Fennel Pollen,” and “Sous-Vide,” all served up with a huge and welcome dollop of wit.
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Customer Reviews
Irreverent humor for foodies. - J. Adamcyk -
Cute, short humorous book for foodies. The dictionary offers tongue in cheek definitions of culinary terms. With new restaurants opening, new ethnic cuisines, and the heightened interest in everything culinary, new vocabulary abounds. Funny!
Marvelous fun if you're a foodie - P. Cole - Calistoga, CA
The foodie mystique unmasked. This book has all the trivia that a real foodie needs to know, presented in a fun format!
A major disappointment - J. A. Hoeltzel -
I bought this book on Amazon and what a trivial disappointment. Half of the entries are for chefs and food writers - almost all from NY, CA, or France. There are many other food meccas, hot chefs and products in the world (and in North America) but these writers seem very limited. So many current food trends and new products are left out. It almost feels that the writers talked to a few restaurants in New York, made a trip to California, and then spent the rest of the time on google to get some info. At times it's almost ludicrous as e.g. when they don't seem to even realize there's a difference in Austrian and German cuisines and influence (Yes they are different and in the south Tyrol of Northern Italy, it's Austrian influence, not German). I think they are trying to also be humorous but it's the same joke through the whole book of writing a ridiculous sentence using the word at the end of the definition. It stops being very funny after a couple of pages. I hate to sound like a snob but this book is one that soon will be collecting dust on a shelf if you purchase it unless you are perhaps from New York or California - for which it might have some parochial allure.
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