Menu Mystique: The Diner's Guide to Fine Food and Drink

by Norman Odya Krohn

Book Overview

No matter which cuisine you favor, to enjoy dining out to its fullest you must be able to understand the restaurant menu. And that is the specific function of Norman Krohns Menu Mystique: to explain those foreign menu terms that are commonly used but are not always fully understood. In this thoroughly researched culinary reference work, Mr. Krohn describes exactly how the dish under discussion is prepared (identifying the ingredients used), tells...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824602803
• ISBN13: 9780824602802
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Jonathan David Co., Inc
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

My Favorite Book Ever!

These descriptions are so well written, I can taste them. As a chef, I find this book to be more valuable than any recipe book and my only wish is that it had been updated to a larger volume. Much better than the "food lovers guide" but perhaps not as complete.

Great food dictionary

I have used this book for looking up information on just about any item one could want to know about food, serving it, using it or the history of a food item. It is very clear and an easy read. It is fascinating to read and has a lot of historical facts in it. I didn't know that garlic was a natural antibotic until I read this book. It is easy to find things in this book as it is set up as in a dictionary format. You could not go wrong buying this if you like to read about food.