Eat Your Words : The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner (For Readers of The Flavor Bible and The Modernist Bread Book).

ISBN:

9781642501353

Title:

Author:

Convery, Paul.

Personal Author:

Convery, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Contents:

Intro -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part One -- Of Flora, Fauna, and Food -- Chapter 1 -- Foodstuffs: Classes and Categories -- Chapter 2 -- Items and Ingredients from the Plant World -- Chapter 3 -- Items and Ingredients from the Animal World -- Chapter 4 -- Fishing, Farming, and Food Production -- Dainty Dishes and Choice Cuisine -- Chapter 5 -- A Cornucopia of Culinary Delights from the English-Speaking World -- Chapter 6 -- A Cornucopia of Culinary Delights from the Rest of the World -- What's Cooking? -- Chapter 7 -- Culinary Arts and Artisans -- Chapter 8 -- Tasting Notes: Flavour, Freshness (and So Forth) -- Something to Digest -- Chapter 9 -- The Physiology of Consumption -- Chapter 10 -- Food Science and Nutrition -- Part Two -- You Are What You Eat -- Chapter 11 -- Dietary Regimes and Feeding Routines -- Chapter 12 -- Picas, Phagias, and Other Perverted Appetites -- Chapter 13 -- Eat or Be Eaten: Nature's Food Chain -- Whet Your Appetite -- Chapter 14 -- Feast: Gluttony and Greed -- Chapter 15 -- Fast: Denial and Disgust -- Chapter 16 -- Famine: Hunger and Starvation -- Catering for Every Taste -- Chapter 17 -- Supplying, Selling, and Serving -- Chapter 18 -- Kitchen and Table -- Come Dine with Me -- Chapter 19 -- Dinners: Making a Meal of It -- Chapter 20 -- Dining: Gastronomy and Gustation -- Chapter 21 -- Diners: A Glossary of Gourmets and Gourmands -- Postscript -- Select Bibliography -- About the Author.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Gastronomy-Dictionaries.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2019

Publication Information:

La Vergne :

Mango Media,

2019.

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Summary

"An outstanding contribution to the field of food language and lore and an accessible reference book for professional and amateur foodies alike." --Susannah Seton, author of Simple Pleasures of the Kitchen Eat Your Words is a gloriously gluttonous glossary of all things grub and gastronomy: It's a true treat for anyone who loves language as much as they love food. With witty and fun definitions of everything from aeroponics to zoosaprophagy, this compilation offers definitions of six thousand unusual and unfamiliar terms across twenty-one fact-packed courses.For bon viveurs and verbivores alike: Are you a gourmet who knows the difference between Maldon and Morton salt? Maybe you're an expert on the properties of heat in cooking. Or you're a cocktail connoisseur with a taste for tequila. Eat Your Words is a surprising treat for anyone who loves learning about food and cooking.A delight for word nerds: For Scrabble stars and anyone who excels at Words with Friends, Eat Your Words is a clever guide to little-known culinary terms that will give you that special edge.In Eat Your Words , you'll find terms about: A cornucopia of culinary treats from around the world The cultivation, selling, and serving of every food you can imagine The appetites of diners and their dinners across all species This new dictionary is the fun reference book you didn't know you wanted. Fans of Tequila Mockingbird and On Food and Cooking will enjoy this fascinating journey into the language of food and eating."Now I can impress my food-snob friends with more than my ratatouille and learn some great food-related Scrabble words as well." --Nina Lesowitz, author of The Party Girl Cookbook

Author Notes

Paul Convery is a "word doctor" with 20 years' experience as a proofreader, copy-editor and magazine production manager. A lifelong logophile, he is the author of Drinktionary: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Drinker (Book Guild, 2017), and has independently published Inkhorn's Erotonomicon: An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians (Matador, 2012). His earlier academic grounding includes postgraduate language studies (University of Strathclyde) and doctoral research in modern European history (University of Glasgow).

Excerpts

Tasting Notes: Flavour, Freshness (and so forth) acerbitude * sourness or sharpness of taste, as with unripe fruit acescency * tartness or asperity of taste acetarious * denoting vegetables or plants used raw in salad, such as lettuce or cress acetosity * the quality of being sour-tasting or vinegarish acidulousness * a degree of sharpness or bitterness in flavour ackerspritted * said of gathered potatoes that have sprouted prematurely acridity * an uncomfortably corrosive bitterness of taste acrimonious * extremely pungent to taste acritude * an astringency in food that is irritating to the organs of taste addleness * the degree of putrefaction or rottenness of eggs agerdows * an early anglicization of agrodolce or aigredoux-'bittersweet' al dente * of pasta, cooked firmer to the bite, not soggy or soft alimonious * nourishing, full of goodness alliaceous * tasting of garlic, leeks or onions; garlicky amarulence * bitterness of taste ambrosiate * exceptionally sweet and pleasing to savour ampery * a regional descriptor for cheese that is starting to reek and decay amygdalaceous * having the flavour of almonds amylaceous * starchy; applies to non-nitrogenous foods apiaceous * savouring of parsley or similar herbs appetizing * mouth-wateringly tasty areastiness * rankness or rancidity in food argute * sharp of taste Excerpted from Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner by Paul Convery All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.