Sharon Tyler Herbst Dies

Cookbook author Sharon Tyler Herbst, whose "The Food Lover's Companion" became a kitchen staple with its thousands of definitions of edibles from around the world, has died.

Herbst died in her Bodega Bay home Friday after a 3 1/2-year battle with ovarian cancer, according to Ron Herbst, her husband of 38 years and sometime co-author. He refused to disclose her age.

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She met her husband in the late '60s, when they worked in the restaurant of a Denver hotel. They moved the coastal hamlet of Bodega Bay in 2003, just months before she was diagnosed with cancer.

Besides her husband, she is survived by her mother, Kay Tyler, and a sister, Tia McCurdy, both of Galveston, Texas.

Rest In Peace, Sharon.