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

[vicki shaw]

Why thank you Johnna!  I shall tell Vicki what you said and she will say see
I told you you should have done way back when I first told you to (ten years
ago)!

Angharad

> 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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