Rodney Dale: 4 out of 5
Buy now from: Amazon UK Amazon USA
This is a very useful book, perfect for translating menus on holiday or seeking out special ingredients when back home..With 12,000 entries Rodney Dale’s dictionary translates a huge range of foreign foods and dishes, menu items, drinks, cooking techniques into English….making it an invaluable and inexpensive resource for frequent travellers and foodies alike. Entries are of course alphabetic in the native language….and there are a lot of languages, French, Italian…of course, but also Finnish, German, Polish, Dutch, Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, Greek and Indian etc. Also definitions of obscure cooking terms in English and American English.I have used this book extensively and it’s very handy but of course by no means exhaustive, you’d need a pretty big dictionary to cover the whole world, also it’s only a “one way” dictionary translating foreign words into English, it will not help you translate your favourite dish into Italian or other foreign languages.
Some favourite example entries:
“Palsternacka” : Parsnip: Swedish.
“Zwischenrippenschtuck” : Rib-Eye Steak: German
“Aamiainen” : Breakfast: Finnish
“éhes” : Hungry : Hungary!
I don’t know how I lived without that kind of information! Recommended reading.
Buy now from: Amazon UK Amazon USA
October 27, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hi, Do something to help the hungry people from Africa and India,
I created this blog about this subject:
in http://tinyurl.com/6kv7fu