Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Food for Thought -- A Brief History of Food -- A Few Tasty Words to Know -- Place Settings -- Kinds of Forks -- Kinds of Spoons -- In the (International) Cupboard -- Traditional Ovens Around the World -- A Century of Stoves -- The Ice Age of Refrigeration -- Fermentation -- Chapter 2: Eat Your Fruits and Veggies -- Dining on the Plant Family -- Edible Parts of Flowering Plants -- Fruit Facts -- How a Flower Becomes a Fruit -- The Parents of Produce -- All in the Family -- Sundry Celeries -- Obscure Beauties -- Tropical Fruits -- Berry Basics -- Little Known Terms for Common Tree Fruit -- Go Bananas -- Citrus -- Surprising Salad Greens -- Famous Fungi -- The Truffle Hunter -- Yam vs. Sweet Potato -- Beans -- Shell Games -- Feeling Nutty -- Peanut Powered -- Cracking Up -- How to Make Tofu -- Chapter 3: A Grain of Truth -- Good Grains -- Corn -- Kinds of Rice -- Growing Rice -- Breads Around the World -- Rolling the Dough -- Baking Traditional Finnish Rye Bread -- Sumptuous Sandwiches -- Some Pasta Shapes -- Making Pasta -- Making Noodles -- Asian Noodle Dishes -- Jane's Noodle Pudding -- Delectable Dumplings from Around the World -- Pancakes Around the World -- Chapter 4: The Meat of the Matter -- Prime Cuts -- How Meat Cooks -- On the Charcuterie Plate -- Sausage Blends -- Butchery Tools -- Meaty Dishes Around the World -- Five Fabulous Food Fish -- How to Fillet a Fish -- Regal Roe -- Other Edible Sea Creatures -- The Fishmonger's Lexicon -- Seafood Cookery Tools -- Fresh Fish -- Commonly Eaten Clams -- Kinds of Sushi -- On the Sushi Menu -- Eating the Whole Chicken -- Poultry Terms -- The Incredible Egg -- Short Order Egg Lingo -- Chapter 5: Dairy Queens -- Milk Maid Math -- Terms of the Trade -- Delicious Dairy -- How to Make Butter.

Real Deal Buttermilk Pancakes -- Cut the Cheese -- Cheese Anatomy -- The Basic Steps in Making Cheese -- Types of Cheese -- American Cheese -- Curd Nerdisms -- Chapter 6: Street Food -- Serious Snacks with Funny Names -- With Your Fries -- Hot Dawg! -- Five Styles of Meat on a Stick -- Anatomy of a Food Truck -- On the Streets… -- Pizza, Pizza! -- Taqueria Terminology -- Chapter 7: Season to Taste -- 6 Superb Spice Blends -- That's Hot! -- A Little Something Sweet -- In the Sugar House -- Creamy Maple Mocha Pudding -- Olive Oil Argot -- Mustard -- How to Make Vinegar -- Salt -- Pepper -- Chapter 8: Drink Up! -- Coffee -- Espresso Guide -- A Spot of Tea -- What's Brewing? -- Tea Time Around the World -- When Life Gives You Lemons… -- Shikanjvi for Two -- Fizzy Sips -- The Equations of Fermented Beverages -- The Basic Steps in Making Wine -- Wine Tasting -- Distillation -- Glassware -- The Cocktail Maker's Toolkit -- Chapter 9: Sweet Tooth -- Common Cakes -- Cake-Making Terms -- We All Scream for Ice Cream -- Sundae Anatomy -- Cookies -- How Chocolate Is Made -- Worldly Treats -- A Spoonful of Sugar -- Homemade Butterscotch Sauce -- Candy -- In an Old-Fashioned Candy Shop -- Pastries -- Pastry Tools -- Soft Sweets Around the World -- American Pie -- Donuts -- The Fortune Cookie -- Acknowledgments -- Other Julia Rothman books.