Eat Your Words

Eat Your Words

The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner (A foodie gift and Scrabble words source)

$19.95

Publication Date: 3rd December 2019

Eat Your Words brings to the table a compilation of 6,000 often unusual and unfamiliar terms across twenty-one fact-packed courses, offering the reader a unique feast of learning as well as a fun and flavor-filled dip into the fascinating language of food and eating. Read More
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Eat Your Words brings to the table a compilation of 6,000 often unusual and unfamiliar terms across twenty-one fact-packed courses, offering the reader a unique feast of learning as well as a fun and flavor-filled dip into the fascinating language of food and eating. Read More
Description

The Comprehensive Etymology of 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

Looking for a unique foodie gift? Eat Your Words is a true treat for anyone who loves language as much as food. And, it’s a great Scrabble helper.

Eat Your Words is a gloriously gluttonous glossary of all things grub and gastronomy. Eat Your Words author Paul Convery is a "word doctor" with 20 years’ experience as a proofreader, a copyeditor, and magazine production manager. A lifelong logophile, he is also the author of other fun reference books you didn’t know you wanted (Drinktionary: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Drinker and Inkhorn's Erotonomicon: An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians.)

A delight for word nerds and a great foodie gift. With witty and fun definitions of everything from aeroponics to zoosaprophagy, this dictionary of foodie trivia has definitions for 6,000 unusual and unfamiliar terms. 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: The Definitive Dictionary for Discerning Diners, 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

Fans of The Flavor EquationTequila Mockingbird, or On Food and Cooking will enjoy this fascinating journey into the language of food and eating.

Details
  • Price: $19.95
  • Pages: 364
  • Carton Quantity: 24
  • Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
  • Imprint: TMA Press
  • Publication Date: 3rd December 2019
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781642501346
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    COOKING / History
    REFERENCE / Trivia
    REFERENCE / Word Lists
    HUMOR / Form / Trivia
    LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Vocabulary
    COOKING / Entertaining
    COOKING / Reference
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
    REFERENCE / Curiosities & Wonders
    REFERENCE / Almanacs
    REFERENCE / Dictionaries
Reviews

“This is 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

“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 Bio
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).
Table of Contents

Part One – Food, Glorious Food!

Of Flora, Fauna and Food

1 Foodstuffs: Classes and Categories

2 Items and Ingredients from the Plant World

3 Items and Ingredients from the Animal World

4 Fishing, Farming and Food Production


Dainty Dishes and Choice Cuisine

5 A Cornucopia of Culinary Treats from the English-speaking World

6 A Cornucopia of Culinary Treats from the Rest of the World


What's Cooking?

7 Culinary Arts and Artisans

8 Tasting Notes: Flavour, Freshness (and so forth)


Something to Digest

9 The Physiology of Consumption

10 Food Science and Nutrition


Part Two – All the Trimmings

You Aare What You Eat

11 Dietary Regimes and Feeding Routines

12 Picas, Phagias and Other Perverted Appetites

13 Eat or Be Eaten: Nature’s Food Chain


Whet Your Appetite

14 Feast: Gluttony and Greed

15 Fast: Denial and Disgust

16 Famine: Hunger and Starvation


Catering for Every Taste

17 Supplying, Selling and Serving

18 Kitchen and Table


Come Dine with Me

19 Dinners: Making a Meal of It

20 Dining: Gastronomy and Gustation

21 Diners: A Glossary of Gourmets and Gourmands

The Comprehensive Etymology of 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

Looking for a unique foodie gift? Eat Your Words is a true treat for anyone who loves language as much as food. And, it’s a great Scrabble helper.

Eat Your Words is a gloriously gluttonous glossary of all things grub and gastronomy. Eat Your Words author Paul Convery is a "word doctor" with 20 years’ experience as a proofreader, a copyeditor, and magazine production manager. A lifelong logophile, he is also the author of other fun reference books you didn’t know you wanted (Drinktionary: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Drinker and Inkhorn's Erotonomicon: An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians.)

A delight for word nerds and a great foodie gift. With witty and fun definitions of everything from aeroponics to zoosaprophagy, this dictionary of foodie trivia has definitions for 6,000 unusual and unfamiliar terms. 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: The Definitive Dictionary for Discerning Diners, 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

Fans of The Flavor EquationTequila Mockingbird, or On Food and Cooking will enjoy this fascinating journey into the language of food and eating.

  • Price: $19.95
  • Pages: 364
  • Carton Quantity: 24
  • Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
  • Imprint: TMA Press
  • Publication Date: 3rd December 2019
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781642501346
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    COOKING / History
    REFERENCE / Trivia
    REFERENCE / Word Lists
    HUMOR / Form / Trivia
    LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Vocabulary
    COOKING / Entertaining
    COOKING / Reference
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
    REFERENCE / Curiosities & Wonders
    REFERENCE / Almanacs
    REFERENCE / Dictionaries

“This is 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

“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

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).

Part One – Food, Glorious Food!

Of Flora, Fauna and Food

1 Foodstuffs: Classes and Categories

2 Items and Ingredients from the Plant World

3 Items and Ingredients from the Animal World

4 Fishing, Farming and Food Production


Dainty Dishes and Choice Cuisine

5 A Cornucopia of Culinary Treats from the English-speaking World

6 A Cornucopia of Culinary Treats from the Rest of the World


What's Cooking?

7 Culinary Arts and Artisans

8 Tasting Notes: Flavour, Freshness (and so forth)


Something to Digest

9 The Physiology of Consumption

10 Food Science and Nutrition


Part Two – All the Trimmings

You Aare What You Eat

11 Dietary Regimes and Feeding Routines

12 Picas, Phagias and Other Perverted Appetites

13 Eat or Be Eaten: Nature’s Food Chain


Whet Your Appetite

14 Feast: Gluttony and Greed

15 Fast: Denial and Disgust

16 Famine: Hunger and Starvation


Catering for Every Taste

17 Supplying, Selling and Serving

18 Kitchen and Table


Come Dine with Me

19 Dinners: Making a Meal of It

20 Dining: Gastronomy and Gustation

21 Diners: A Glossary of Gourmets and Gourmands