A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely of Lies


The market for food books appears, at last, to have begun devouring itself.
Nearly every topic worth writing about has been written about, and the well
 of reliable, interesting
information on food, once thought inexhaustible,
is beginning to run dry.

In circumstances such as these, author Barry Foy believes that an honorable writer
 has
nowhere to go but sideways, into the realm of lies, misleading claims,
 and
baseless speculation. With its hundreds of entries on subjects ranging from
ingredients to utensils to techniques,
plus its you-are-there historical coverage of
 everything from the little-known Icelandic
roots of cheese to the strange case of
 Emil the Talking Black-Eyed Pea, The Devil's Food Dictionary
promises much-needed
relief to the foodish reader who finds him/herself sagging under the burden of
 
informativeness and credibility.

DevilsFoodDictionary.com features sample material from the DFD,
and here's the good news: By September 2008, The Devil's Food Dictionary
(1,100 entries, 250 footnotes, 26 illustrations, full bibliography)
will be available in print, published by Seattle's Frogchart Press. Watch this
website for the official release announcement, plus information on how to
obtain copies for yourself and your highly sophisticated friends!



 
BARRY FOY is a writer, musician, and enthusiastic home cook living in the Pacific Northwest.
Over the course of an extremely long and prolific career he has collaborated with many
internationally renowned chefs, ghostwriting books for Antoine Carême and Auguste
Escoffier, among others. He also produced a thirty-volume series of cookbooks under
his own name, which for some years was "Jacques Pépin."

The Devil's Food Dictionary is Mr. Foy's fourth culinary lexicon. His previous works are
credited
with popularizing numerous obscure or forgotten cooking terms, including "boilate,"
"jink-folding," and "serpentane." His first dictionary, 1993's What Do You Call That
Smell?, was nominated for a prestigious Special Book Award Nominees Award Special
Mention. The second, So You Want to Be a Compiler of Culinary Lexicons!, was
translated into eleven foreign languages before finally being banned in 1998. The third
sank like a stone.

A devotee of the art of barbecue and a regular on the competition circuit, Barry Foy made
national headlines in 2003 when his unusual custom-built meat smoker, made to resemble
the elephant-headed Hindu god, Ganesha, was discovered to contain the charred remains
of two rival cooks. Authorities eventually ruled the deaths suicides, but the investigation
inspired the creation of a top-rated reality television show, Clear My Name!, which
Mr. Foy co-produced (and starred in) for the Fox Network.

Barry Foy is a longtime art collector and has commissioned a number of original works.
Among the paintings hanging in his Frank Gehry-designed titanium houseboat is a David
Hockney portrait of him that seems to age from day to day, even as the writer himself
retains a fresh and ever-renewingly youthful appearance. Almost a glow, really.



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SPECIAL THANKS TO JOHN BOESCHE FOR HELP IN CREATING THIS WEBSITE
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