[Sca-cooks] Encyclopedia of Exotic foods (was Adadina which should have been Adafina)

[Johnna Holloway]

Actually the guides already do exist---
Check out
Bruce Cost. Asian Ingredients.
Eve Zibart. The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion.
Linda Bladholm. Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified.
Linda Bladholm. The Asian Grocery Store Demystified.
Linda Bladholm. The Indian Grocery Store Demystified.
There are many more---
Then there are the produce guides like
The Great Exotic Fruit Book.
The major problem is combining all the information and the pictures into
a format that can still be transported in a purse or pocket. One can't lug
The Oxford Companion to the market.... although I have taken Alan Davidson's
seafood books with me at times.

Johnnae llyn Lewis



vicki shaw wrote:

>A friend who loves my eclectic cooking but found herslef totally lost when I
>took her to my favorite indo-pakistani shop, kept pointing to one thing
>after another asking what is this, how do you use it, how would I know, etc
>etc etc.  snipped  She said I should write a book on
>all the exotic herbs, powders, spices, condiments, bottled and jarred items,
>vegetables, fruits, meats, fishes, etc etc, from Indo to Pakistani to
>Laotian, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese stores.  
>It's actually not a bad idea if such a guide does not already exist.  Anyone
>itching to author an encyclopedia?  Call it Guidebook to Shopping in Ethnic
>Food Stores.
>Angharad
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