The Visual Food Encyclopedia: The Definitive Practical Guide to Food and Cooking

by François Fortin (Editor)

With images so clear and richly colored that readers will want to eat the food right off the pages, The Visual Food Encyclopedia is an invaluable kitchen companion, illustrating and explaining everything other cookbooks assume cooks already know. The book's no-nonsense approach tells how to look for freshness, how to store various types of foods, and the best methods of preparation and cooking for 1,000 different types of foods. 1,250 color illustrations.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking, Reference, Food and Drink, Nonfiction, Cuisine

685 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Clifford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great quick-reference for identifying from fruits and vegetables to meats and grains. It also explains how to prepare and store them. Very helpful.

[Darcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perfect must have book for anyone interested in foods!

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful reference book.

[rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

i'm getting hungry just thinking about the visual food encyclopedia.

the skinny:

if you're eating an avocado (as i often am) and you're wondering, just what is there to know about the avocado, then you can flip to page 58 and see some illustrations of how it grows, what it looks like all opened up, the history of the "fruit vegetable," buying, preparing, serving, storing and nutritional information.

as it turns out, the avocado is indeed as universally stupendous as i always suspected.

[Fishface · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous encyclopedia of all kinds of foodstuffs, beautifully hand-illustrated in watercolors. Features all kinds of fruits you never heard of from around the world, intriguing vegetables, different classes of meats and fish, grains, seaweeds, fungus among us and legumes, with nutritional and preparation information and a sprinkle of ideas about how people around the world use them. Not so much a cookbook as a dare for you to go out and try a Dragonfruit and see how it tastes.

[Hope · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this up at work, and now I want my own copy. The pictures - drawings - are amazing. The content is informative and in just the right detail. A great book for anyone who is interested in food and cooking.

[Jerrod Stephan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome encylclopedia of food. Every ingredient has picture, origin, nutrition facts, composition, uses, storage, preperation, and on and on.

[Tara]

Very nice illustrations, nutritional break down, and tips on choosing and cooking. A must have reference for foodies.

[Aimee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haven't read it cover to cover - but it appears to be an awesome reference book.