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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 Equation, Tequila Mockingbird, or On Food and Cooking will enjoy this fascinating journey into the language of food and eating.
“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
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