Saturday, October 18, 2008

Olya's favourite dictionary -the Cook's Illustrated Dictionary.


   So I’ve decided to enter the Cook's Thesaurus, because I have been interested in cooking different unusual dishes since my childhood. For me it’s not simply a necessity but also a very creative process. When I had read the main page I understood that it’s a cooking encyclopedia that has a great amount of articles which are dedicated to almost all sorts of ingredients and kitchen tools. Much to my astonishment, each entry includes pictures, useful descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions. Moreover there is a note about an “Ingredient of the Month” in the first page. In addition, I easily have found a lot of information about food due to a link “Categories “which contains many points such as “vegetables”, “flavorings”, “dairy”, “vegetarian”, “grain products", “accompaniments” and etceteras. I’ve read an article about vegetables where I’ve found that, for example, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and beans, are all fruits, but we usually refer to them as vegetables. It was rather a surprising thing for me!
I am sure that this encyclopedia can help everyone to know more about what we eat and simply find interesting information!
You can follow by this link:
http://www.foodsubs.com/





1 comment:

Natalia Eydelman said...

Did you find some recipe you would like to try?

I had a look at a couple of pages and found the information quite interesting; in the first place because I don't know many things that you can find information about in this dictionary. I had a look at the page Citrus Fruit http://www.foodsubs.com/Fruitcit.html and discovered I have no idea about many of them, for example, calamansi (lime), fingered citron, limequat and shaddock, to name just a few. Do you know these fruit?

Do you have a favorite dish to cook?

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