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YOU PROBABLY WILL never need to know half the things that are in it, but if you have any curiosity about comestibles, you probably won’t want to be without it. We’re referring to the just-published Food Yellow Pages, a remarkably helpful new kitchen resource. Consider the following possibilities:

You’ve just received a new cookbook, “Game and How to Cook It.” You’re dying to try venison, but you don’t know where to find any. The Food Yellow Pages does.

A friend suggests going to the Brussels Sprouts Festival. You’ve never even heard of it. Not wanting to feel foolish, you look it up and discover that the festival takes place in October in Santa Cruz.

You’re going to join a friend in Bangkok, and you think it would be a good opportunity to learn about Thai cooking. But you don’t know how to find a class. No problem: The Yellow Pages will tell you how to take cooking classes almost anywhere in the world.

You love fresh farm-grown vegetables, but you never can seem to find a farmers market. The Food Yellow Pages will tell you when and where to find every farmers market in Los Angeles County (so far, there is no edition for any other county).

The chicken you’ve just bought is looking pale. You wonder whether there’s anything wrong with it. Whom should you call? Look up the hot-line numbers in the book.

Every time you ask a friend where she got the great recipe she’s just served you, she says she heard it on the radio. But every time you tune in, the only recipes you hear are the ones for success. When do those food shows air? The Food Yellow Pages has a list.

Let your mouth do the munching and your fingers do the shopping with the Food Yellow Pages. The Food Yellow Pages costs $7.95 and is available at Book Soup, Los Angeles, or by mail from the publishers: The Food Yellow Pages, P.O. Box 461449, Los Angeles 90046, (213) 852-0946 or (213) 653-7185. Mail-order price is $10.47, which includes shipping and handling.