WAIE (whatamieating.com)


This is the searchable online international food dictionary with – so far – 63,471 terms in 303 languages plus 13,340 plurals.

Just type in the word that you're looking for and press enter or click on search. There are other types of search; see search help for more information.

Most Recent Upload: 14th July 2010

I have been busy with other things just recently but have now managed another upload. I have had the great good fortune to make the acquaintance of Babette Blaedel-Flajsner who has started to do some really high quality work on my Danish and Swedish lists. I *love* it when good people add to my work and brush it into really good shape. Also Susi Arendt has kindly looked at German plural terms for me and I am slowly adding these. Many thanks to Babette and Susi.

I am just starting work on developing some apps so people can carry the largest food dictionaries in about 60 different languages with them wherever they go. I'll keep people posted as to how this goes.

I have also just met David Lyne-Gordon on-line. He has written a great work on edible plants and, to my great excitement, is keen to help out with some of my entries concerning the more uncommon plants. It is lovely for me to get help in this way.

Welcome to the new people who have joined the Facebook group. (Facebook group) If you would like to join, you will get occasional updates about what has been added to to the site.

I am still working on improvements to the site. This is a long job and entry of new food terms will happen much more quickly once this structural work is done.

Please do let us know if you see any errors, broken links or pictures. Some of the changes I am making may lead to this happening and it would help if you could let us know.

Description: A region in southern Spain with coasts on both the Mediterranean and just turning the corner onto the Atlantic. Much of it is the basin of the Guadalquivir river with the Sierra Nevada in the south east. The cuisine is influenced by both Arab and Jewish traditions and sherry, Montilla and Málaga wines are produced. It is a well-irrigated area and it produces olives, vines, cereals, nuts and citrus fruits. The principal cities are Seville, Córdoba and Granada with their beautiful Moorish buildings, a tradition of flamenco and bull-fighting and a sensation of heat in all things. The bulls provide some oddities in the cuisine as various parts of them are offered after bullfights, though visitors to the area generally do not get to see these sought after items. In Andalucía, fish is fried, soup is eaten cold in the form of gazpacho (either the classic tomato version or the ajo blanco of Málaga). Of course, the oranges grown in this region are of the bitter Seville variety, which are great for preserves. In the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada excellent cured hams are produced. Fino (from Jerez de la Frontera) is regularly drunk here as an apéritif and is thought of as a white wine rather than as a sherry.