- Paperback: 616 pages
- Publisher: Wiley (Aug 5 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470505591
- ISBN-13: 978-0470505595
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 13.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#100,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #16 in Books > Nonfiction > Education > Reference > Encyclopedias > Cooking
- #18 in Books > Reference > Encyclopedias > Cooking
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Product Description
Product Description
An invaluable guide on how to identify, select, prepare, and store over 1,000 types of food
Small enough to carry everywhere, but packed with information, this practical and beautifully illustrated full-color guide covers almost every type of food you will find at a supermarket, farmer's market, and specialty food store.
The Visual Food Lover's Guide gives you
- Information on buying, storing, and cooking every type of food
- Over 600 color illustrations to help clearly identify foods
- Nutritional facts for every ingredient
- The essentials on vegetables, legumes, grains, fish, shellfish, meat, poultry, dairy products, nuts and seeds, and herbs and spices
- A quick reference on foods as common as chicken and as exotic as kombu seaweed
- How-to photos of basic food preparation techniques such as properly cutting a pineapple, cleaning crab, and making homemade pasta
With more than 300 entries, The Visual Food Lover's Guide is an indispensable tool for anyone who wants to know at a glance about the foods they eat and read about.
From the Back Cover
Your Handy Guide to Eating Well
What does a longan look like? What's the best way to clean a crab? Do you know the difference between a turnip and a rutabaga? Which beef cut do T-bone and porterhouse steaks come from? How long will olive oil keep?
Get the answers to these and many more food questions in this indispen- sable, compact guide. The Visual Food Lover's Guide includes:
- Details on almost every type of food you'll find at a supermarket, farmers' market or specialty food store
- Over 600 color illustrations to help you clearly identify foods
- Tips on selecting, preparing and storing every entry
- Nutritional information for every entry
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, very useful!,
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This review is from: The Visual Food Lover's Guide: Includes essential information on how to buy, prepare and store over 1,000 types of food (Paperback)
I am a chef and I would recommend this book to any food lover! It was a bunch of info for any type of food, how to cook with it, what the goes well this, all sorts of things it's a great buy for anyone!
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4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good but not perfect resource,
By Lillyspence - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Visual Food Lover's Guide: Includes essential information on how to buy, prepare and store over 1,000 types of food (Paperback)
There is a lot of information in this little (5 x 6) book...616 pages. Lots of color drawings and some photos add a great deal to the overall effort, though the information on each type of food is basic. If that is what you need, this is the book for you. It is quite adequate in that regard as it describes choosing, preparing, and storing foods in a few lines of type as well as showing drawings of the major varieties within each category. It even lists the nutrients and some serving suggestions. I can't find fault with the information that is listed. I did wish there were more varieties pictured and mentioned, however, so in that sense I was disappointed. Let me give you an example: I get confused about different types of chili peppers when I am looking at them in the grocery store (usually not clearly marked)and would have liked a lot of photos of the different types. What I got was 6 types (bird's eye, fresh green, jalapeno, fresh red, serrano, and tabasco), all shown in drawings separately, and looking very much alike, with no indication of actual size. Initially, I only found 4 types and thought that was it until I looked a little further in the book. I gave this book 4 stars instead of 3 due to the amount of information that is there, but I did not think that it added significantly to my knowledge of foods and their characteristics. I was hoping that the "visual" in the title would be more useful.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
healthy living,
By C. Motil - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Visual Food Lover's Guide: Includes essential information on how to buy, prepare and store over 1,000 types of food (Paperback)
this book would be an awesome gift for someone who is just "learning the kitchen" before they learn to cook! I saw this at a major book store and knew I had to have one even though I've been "kitchen-wise" for 45 years. never too old to learn..
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Resource,
By John Galt - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a must have resource for any kitchen. I like it so much I've purchased copies for my friends and family. Simple. Easy to read. A treasure chest of food knowledge.
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