Food Language Book - The Eaten Word for Food Lovers & Linguists

The book explains many everyday food-related expressions that pepper the English language and traces how basic foodstuffs like apples and corn, cooking methods like barbecue, and dishes like cioppino and lobster Newburg got their names. Jacobs also serves up many food-slang snacks. He even fills a plate with gastronomic names that belong to baseball players, noting that no other game seems as hungry. A well-seasoned glossary rounds out the book.excellent book, fascinating research into the history of the naming of foods, a must have for linguists, nutritional anthropologists, history buffs, restauranteurs, cooks, food industry employees, and food lovers