Food Lover's Companion

Food Lover’s Companion

Fourth Edition cover
Author Sharon Tyler Herbst
and Ron Herbst
Country United States
Series Barron's Cooking Guide
Subject Food and cooking
Publisher Barron's Educational Series
Publication date
1990 – 2015 (Deluxe 2nd)
Media type trade paperback and hardcover (Deluxe edition only)
Pages 928 (5th), 864 (Deluxe 2nd)
ISBN 978-0764167034 (Deluxe 2nd)

The New Food Lover’s Companion—currently in its Fifth Edition—is a seminal work in the culinary field. The book defines over 7,000 culinary terms in its 800+ pages, along with numerous conversion tables. Each edition is a significant expansion on the previous edition in number of entries and the coverage of the various appendices.

The main section of the work is an A-to-Z list of defined culinary terminology, followed by a series of appendices.

Edition details
Edition Published ISBN Pages Entries
First January 1990 0-8120-4156-9 582 Over 3,000
Second January 1995 0-8120-1520-7 600 Over 4,000
Third March 2001 0-7641-1258-9 792 Nearly 6,000
Fourth August 2007 0-7641-3577-5 830 Over 6,700
Deluxe September 2009 0-7641-6241-1 794 Over 6,700
Fifth September 2013 978-1438001630 928 Over 7,200
Deluxe 2nd April 2015 978-0764167034 864 Over 7,200
Third Edition cover

The Second Edition is a searchable source text at Epicurious, and the Third Edition is a searchable source text at Answers.com.

Sharon Tyler Herbst—the primary author—wrote 16 food and beverage related books before her death on January 26, 2007. Her husband Ron—who writes about wine and cheese—finished editing the Fourth Edition after her death and is credited as the coauthor.

Reception

Bon Appetit hailed the book as “one of the best reference books we’ve seen, a must for every cook’s library”, and the New York Times described it “As thick and as satisfying as a well-stuffed sandwich”.[1]

Famous chef Emeril Lagasse called it his favorite book,[2] and it is required reading at the New England Culinary Institute.

Deluxe edition

After the 2007 edition was published, Ron Herbst and the staff of Barron's Educational Series drastically reorganized the book, breaking out much of the material into specialized glossaries on subjects like chocolate, liqueurs, charcuterie, and spices. This edition was published in hardcover as The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion and included a marker ribbon bound into the spine. The 2013 fifth edition received a similar treatment in April 2015.

Fourth edition appendices

In the deluxe editions, some of these have been folded into the glossary sections.

See also

Notes

  1. Back cover of the Third and Fourth Editions.
  2. Konrad, Rachel (January 29, 2007). "Cookbook author and foodie favorite Sharon Tyler Herbst dies". Associated Press. Retrieved 2007-02-17.

External links

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