The language of food : a linguist reads the menu / Dan Jurafsky.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393240832 (hbk.)
- 0393240835 (hbk.)
- 641.32009 23
- TX353 .J78 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.
How to read a menu -- Entr©âe -- From sikbâj 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.