Amazon.com description: Product Description: Dr Samuel A Matz has had over 50 years of experience conducting, administering, and writing about product development, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance in government and the food industry. He has been granted 12 US patents and has contributed articles on food technology and related topics to six encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia Britannica. He was named on two Secretary of the Army awards for contributions to ration development. ~~~ This 124-page book contains over 2,000 definitions of words and phrases that students, technologists, scientists, engineers, and other workers may encounter in reading technical literature. Examples of the areas covered are milling, baking, snacks, breakfast cereals, malting, brewing, and rice processing. Terms applied to ingredients, finished products, processing machinery, utensils, testing procedures, and the like are included. Most entries are defined according to American usage, but hundreds of terms from other languages are also included. This book is hardbound, with a cover embossed in light blue and gold.