Food Language Guide - Explore Culinary Terms & Culture for Cooking Enthusiasts

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.