Eating your words / William Grimes, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grimes, William.

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Dictionaries.

Food.

Cooking--Dictionaries.

Cooking.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Physical Description:

xiv, 258 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Here is a feast of words that will whet the appetite of food and word lovers everywhere. William Grimes, former restaurant critic for The New York Times, covers everything from bird's nest soup to Trockenbeerenauslese in this wonderfully informative food lexicon. Eating Your Words is a veritable cornucopia -- more than two thousand entries on candies and desserts, fruits and vegetables, meats, seafood, spices, herbs, wines, cheeses, liqueurs, cocktails, sauces, dressings, and pastas. The book includes terms from around the world (basmati, kimchi, haggis, callaloo) and from around the block (meat loaf, Slim Jims, Philly cheesesteak). Grimes describes utensils (from tandoor and wok to slotted spoon and zester), cooking styles (bonne femme, over easy), cuts of meat (crown roast, prime rib), and much more. Difficult words have a pronuciation guide and many entries indicate the origin of the word. Thus we learn that olla podrida is Spanish for "rotten pot" and mulligatawny comes from the Tamil words milaku-tanni, meaning "pepper water." Grimes includes helpful tips on usage, such as when to write whiskey and when to write whisky. In addition, there are eleven special sidebars on food and food word topics -- everything from diner slang to bad fad diets -- plus a time line of food trends by decade and (finally!) the story behind the word hot dog. Even if you don't know a summer sausage from a spring chicken, you will find Eating Your Words a delectable treat. And for everyone who loves to cook, this superb volume is an essential resource -- and the perfect gift.

Contents:

Eating Your Words 1

A Hoagie by Any Other Name 24

Let Us Now Praise Famous Bars 70

Mock Foods 101

Ten Signs of a Bad Restaurant 119

Hot or Dog? That's the Question 163

Slang with Bite: An Eatimology 208

Ten Fruits You Haven't Tasted but Should 228

Food Fads Timeline 242

Fad Diets Timeline 249

Food Web Sites 252.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

ISBN:

0195174062

OCLC:

55657654

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page