[Sca-cooks] Seeking Food Dictionary

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Solveig:
>Noble Cousins!
>
>Greetings from Solveig! I am working on a translation project and currently
>know the scientific names for lots of ingredients, but not their English
>names. Can anyone recommend one or more good books which will help me out?
>I need names for plants, animals, and fungi. (I forget whether fungi are
>considered to be plants or not.) Thank you very much for your help.

This _may_ be a case of there being no single source that would 
answer all of those needs. However, if this is a Japanese translation 
project (my apologies if I presume here, but seeing that it's you, 
it's probably a pretty good guess ;-)   ), my big Chinese herbal 
might help, at least for some of the terms (I believe it even has 
some Japanese names cross-indexed). Would you like to post some of 
the terms?

I can dig out the exact publication info on the Chinese herbal 
(actually I have several, but the one I'm thinking of has English, 
Latin, different Chinese dialects written out in Pinyin, Chinese 
writing, Japanese writing, and the Japanese equivalent of Pinyin: 
phoneticized for the Roman alphabet; it's an encyclopedia of Chinese 
herbal medicine) I'll have to dig out later tonight.

Adamantius