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: The Balearics consist of an archipelago of 16 islands about 50 miles off the East coast of Catalonia, the main ones being Mallorca (Majorca), Menorca (Minorca), Ibiza and Formantera. Here, vines, almonds, olives are grown. Being an island group, of course fish and shellfish play a major part in the cuisine, as evidenced in frito mallorquina and the extravagant caldereta menorquina. Jewish settlement has had some influence on the cuisine, as it has in Catalonia. It became a dependency of Aragón in 1349 but the language is similar to Catalan. Menorca is the most temperate of the Islands and supports dairy herds which were introduced under British rule. Mallorca is the largest of the archipelago and is well know for its almonds, tomatoes, figs and meats such as suckling pig and lamb as well as rabbit.