The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge

The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge | David Kamp, Marion Rosenfeld | Much Better Than Arugula

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	The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge David Kamp, Marion Rosenfeld Broadway, 2007 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Marvelous fun if you're a foodie

The foodie mystique unmasked. This book has all the trivia that a real foodie needs to know, presented in a fun format!

Much Better Than Arugula

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!

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Know Your Food

While I'm far from a food snob, it's nice to appear knowledgable to those who are. The book is written in a humorous manner. It was delivered speedily and in good condition.

Quick read, great for deflating the snob at any table!

This is a tasty little book to have on hand as a quick, fun, read between big serious novels. Very informational as well as silly, something that the snobs wouldn't want to fold into their Mousseline!

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