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The new food lover's companion / Sharon Tyler Herbst, Ron Herbst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbst, Sharon Tyler, Author.
- Herbst, Ron, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food.
- Cooking.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 916 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppage, New York : Barron's Educational Series, Inc., [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "THE NEW FOOD LOVER'S COMPANION is a reference guide―not a cookbook―but it includes hundreds of cooking tips plus an extensive bibliography of recommended cookbooks. More than 7,200 entries plus line art are included in this seminal work." -- Amazon.
- Contents:
- How to Use This Book
- Pronunciation Guide
- Terms
- Appendix
- Ingredient Equivalents
- Substituting Ingredients
- Pan Substitution Chart
- High-Altitude Baking Adjustments
- Boiling Point of Water at Various Altitudes
- General Temperature Equivalents
- Hand Test for Grilling Temperatures
- Oven Temperatures
- Fahrenheit/Celsius Conversion Formulas
- Microwave Oven Conversion Chart
- Recommended Safe Cooking Temperatures
- Candymaking Cold-Water Tests
- Frying Temperatures
- Smoke Points of Popular Oils
- Fatty Acid Profiles of Popular Oils
- U.S. Measurement Equivalents
- Wine and Spirit Bottle Sizes
- Approximate Metric Equivalents
- Metric Conversion Formulas
- USDA's MyPlate
- Food Label Terms
- A Guide to Food Labels
- Pasta Glossary
- British and American Food and Cooking Terms
- Seasoning Suggestions
- Meat Charts
- Food Additives Directory.
- Notes:
- "Prior editions ... 1990 under the title Food lover's companion"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 905-916).
- Online resource; title from ePub title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 6, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version (13-digit ISBN): Herbst, Sharon Tyler. The new food lover's companion.
- Print version (10-digit ISBN): Herbst, Sharon Tyler. The new food lover's companion.
- ISBN:
- 9781438092331
- 1438092334
- OCLC:
- 1012344267
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