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The language of food : a linguist reads the menu / Dan Jurafsky.
LIBRA TX353 .J78 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jurafsky, Dan, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food--History.
- Food.
- History.
- Food--Terms and phrases.
- Dinners and dining--Terms and phrases.
- Dinners and dining.
- Food habits--History.
- Food habits.
- English language--Etymology.
- English language.
- Genre:
- History.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393240832
- 0393240835
- OCLC:
- 869437848
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