[Sca-cooks] Seeking Food Dictionary

[Johnna Holloway]

I have to agree with Master A. here that quite likely no one dictionary 
or encyclopedia
is going to have everything. It's far more likely that you are going to 
have to
use a variety of sources ranging from academic (expensive) library sources
that are kept in the specialist sections of the university library's 
reference
sections  to quite possibly the glossaries found in modern regional 
cookery texts.
You may need to consult botanical and zoological dictionaries as well as
those more usually consulted in terms of gastronomy or foodways. It 
might be worthwhile
making up a list and taking it off to the largest University reference 
room with an
Asian Studies Department if that's the focus and running
some of the terms through. Then note which sources prove helpful and which
meanings can in fact be cross-checked against the others. You'll have
to develop some sort of scheme to keep all the definitions and their 
sources straight
for the glossary that you will be developing also. Source A was used for 
terms
1, 4, 8, 12. Source B for terms for 3. 5. 8. etc.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Solveig: 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.snipped
>
>
> 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
>