With the influx of cookbooks, cooking shows, and chefs in today's world, it's difficult to find something out of the ordinary that defines cooking in a whole new way.Passion of a Foodie is that something. Best-selling author Heidemarie Vos recounts a fascinating story and her journey of putting together the world's first cross-referenced book regarding food-using more than five languages.This cookbook will become an invaluable resource for your kitchen, cooking school, culinary vacations, professional chef training institute/academy or restaurant as its contents provide endless information about ingredients-what they are and where to find them-cooking terms, and what they mean, as well as exotic recipes from all over the globe. It also helps the food import/export industry with language.From the new bride/novice cook to the professional chef, Passion of a Foodie is a must have, must read guidebook that provides a detailed classification of foods and their ingredients. As a cook/chef, you'll wonder how you ever survived without it. "What is the purpose of this book? I wrote it to empower even the most challenged person in the kitchen to come to grips with 'kitchen lingo', methods, tools, ingredients from A -Z and unusual recipes as well as terminology and spice recipes not easily found in your everyday recipe books. It puts it all in lay terms and opens up a whole new gastronomic universe for its user." Heidemarie Vos is a writer with a best selling cookbook to her credit, Chili South Africa, as well as commissioned recipe books for the South African Company "Fruit and Veg City." Mrs. Vos has traveled to over 40 countries and has lived on three continents. She is currently writing a nonfiction book about her recently deceased South African husband, and although she herself is an American citizen, she lives in Port Elizabeth, South Africa at this time.