Cook's Encyclopaedia

A descriptive compendium of just about everything we eat and how we cook it—selected as “one of the greatest cookbooks of all time” ( Waitrose Food Illustrated ).   Arranged alphabetically from Abalone to Zampone, Cook’s Encyclopedia covers the majority of foods and processes used in cooking. Hundreds of ingredients are described, with English and foreign synonyms and scientific names; recipes are given in many cases to illustrate the use of the foodstuff in question. Cooking processes—incl