Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst - The New Food Lover's Companion: More than 6,700 A-to-Z entries describe foods, cooking techniques, herbs, spices, desserts, wines, and the ingredients for pleasurable dining

Pros: Literally incredible detail of every cooking question you could possibly imagine
Cons: Will eventually need to be replaced because of new cooking terminology

My teenaged son who has autism has a passion to become a chef. However, just because you have the passion for a thing doesn't mean that you will necessarily be good at that task. For this reason, we have begun to acquire literally hundreds of cookbooks ...

Pros: Includes EVERYTHING you could think of, and plenty you've never dreamed of
Cons: None

This book is a culinary dictionary with thousands of terms. As someone who will read a cookbook from cover to cover in the same way that others read a novel, I thought I was pretty familiar with a lot of cooking and gourmet vocabulary. Boy, did this book ...