The Language of Food : : a Linguist Reads the Menu
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How to read a menu -- Entrée -- From sikbāj to fish and chips -- Ketchup, cocktails, and pirates -- A toast to toast -- Who are you calling a turkey? -- Sex, drugs, and sushi rolls -- Potato chips and the nature of the self -- Salad, salsa, and the flour of chivalry -- Macaroon, macaron, macaroni -- Sherbet, fireworks, and mint juleps -- Does this name make me sound fat? : why ice cream and crackers have different names -- Why the Chinese don't have dessert.
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Food and Words about Food submitted by sdunav on July 5, 2016, 5:28pm Surprisingly interesting (to me, anyway) essays on, well, the language we use about food. Menus, advertising, the history of what we call things like macaroons and macaroni, sherbet/sherbert/sorbet, etc. This book combines a couple of my favorite things - food and words - so even though Jurafsky isn't super amazing as a writer, it's still good.
book on food submitted by JY 2005 on June 17, 2018, 9:26am interesting essays about certain foods
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393240832
0393240835
SUBJECTS
Food -- History.
Food -- Terms and phrases.
Dinners and dining -- Terms and phrases.
Food habits -- History.
English language -- Etymology.