Food Lover’s Companion is a book containing culinary terminology and conversion tables for cooking.

The main section of the work is an A-to-Z list of defined culinary terminology, followed by a series of appendices.

[1] Famous chef Emeril Lagasse called it his favorite book,[2] and it is required reading at the New England Culinary Institute.

[citation needed] After the 2007 edition was published, Ron Herbst and the staff of Barron's Educational Series drastically reorganized the book, breaking out much of the material into specialized glossaries on subjects like chocolate, liqueurs, charcuterie, and spices.

This edition was published in hardcover as The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion and included a marker ribbon bound into the spine.