The Prentice Hall Dictionary of Culinary Arts

For courses in Professional Cooking, Food and Beverage Management, Quantity Food Production, Food Preparation, and Introduction to Foods.

This unique, exceptionally comprehensive dictionary of the culinary arts defines approximately 20,000 terms (including "foreign terms" from all the world's cuisines, not just European). The entries are drawn from such varied categories as: foods, international foods, prepared dishes, preparation and cooking methods, tools and equipment, food chemistry, beers, spirits, and wines, hospitality and restaurant management, nutrition, food safety and sanitation, chef biographies, food history, and gastronomy.