Dictionary of Gastronomy

The Food Dictionary–English-Italian/Italian-English is dedicated to gastronomy, catering and in general to the world of the cooking: the ingredients, tools, techniques of preparation, the Italian classic and regional recipes, the most important international specialties. The headwords opens to the terminology relating to the food and to the related disciplines, such as viticulture, oenology, preservation techniques and the science of food preparations. Beside the classic cuisine there are the great international dishes: from sushi to couscous, from chili to tandoori.

This dictionary is intended to an international audience that aims to untangle in the extraordinary complexity of this matter that as few combines a strong local roots to a universal vocation. In addition to the search in the broad wordlist, the app allows you to run full-text searches and provides a useful option to search the phraseology providing for a real context of the spoken language, and making the dictionary a useful tool for quick reference as well as a safe and practical language guide for both idioms.

Main features
  • Check for updates online and use of the dictionary offline
  • User interface in Italian and English
  • More than 18,000 entries
  • 1300 preparations and recipes of the Italian cuisine
  • 169 cocktail names
  • 300 Italian regional names of ingredients: meat, fish, cheeses, vegetables, fruit
  • Research history
  • Table with abbreviations used in the dictionary
  • Ability to report suggestions, errors, lemmas not found
  • Search the index, by entry and in full text
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