The Complete Language Of Food

Author : S. Theresa Dietz
Publisher : Wellfleet
ISBN 13 : 157715259X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Language of Food written by S. Theresa Dietz and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Language of Food blends the realms of food and folklore in a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of ingredients, including for each entry the food’s unique properties and the facts and folklore behind its use.

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324587X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu written by Dan Jurafsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 James Beard Award Finalist: "Eye-opening, insightful, and huge fun to read." —Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like "rich" and "crispy," zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a microuniverse of marketing language on the back of a bag of potato chips. The fascinating journey through The Language of Food uncovers a global atlas of culinary influences. With Jurafsky's insight, words like ketchup, macaron, and even salad become living fossils that contain the patterns of early global exploration that predate our modern fusion-filled world. From ancient recipes preserved in Sumerian song lyrics to colonial shipping routes that first connected East and West, Jurafsky paints a vibrant portrait of how our foods developed. A surprising history of culinary exchange—a sharing of ideas and culture as much as ingredients and flavors—lies just beneath the surface of our daily snacks, soups, and suppers. Engaging and informed, Jurafsky's unique study illuminates an extraordinary network of language, history, and food. The menu is yours to enjoy.

Author : S. Theresa Dietz
Publisher : Wellfleet
ISBN 13 : 1577154126
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Language of Herbs written by S. Theresa Dietz and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Language of Herbs is a comprehensive and definitive dictionary/reference presenting the history, symbolic meaning, and visual depiction of over 500 herbs and spices from around the world in one volume—now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference.

Author : S. Theresa Dietz
Publisher : Wellfleet
ISBN 13 : 1577152832
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Language of Flowers written by S. Theresa Dietz and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive and definitive dictionary/reference presenting the history, symbolic meaning, and visual depiction of 1,001 flowers and botanicals from around the world in one volume—now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference.

Author : Samuel Boerboom
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498505562
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Language of Food written by Samuel Boerboom and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities.Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of food-based messages and examine how such language—including idioms, tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc.—serves to both mislead and obscure relationships between food and the resulting community, health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and rhetoric.

Author : Charlotte Foltz Jones
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 1101934328
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eat Your Words written by Charlotte Foltz Jones and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baked Alaska, melba toast, hush puppies, and coconuts. You'd be surprised at how these food names came to be. And have you ever wondered why we use the expression "selling like hotcakes"? Or how about "spill the beans"? There are many fascinating and funny stories about the language of food--and the food hidden in our language! Charlotte Foltz Jones has compiled a feast of her favorite anecdotes, and John O'Brien's delightfully pun-filled drawings provide the dessert. Bon appetit!

Author : S. Theresa Dietz
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760373422
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Language of Food written by S. Theresa Dietz and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Complete Language of Food blends the realms of food and folklore in a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of ingredients, including for each entry the food's unique properties and the facts and folklore behind its use"--

Author : Kathleen C. Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317442334
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and Language written by Kathleen C. Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we talk about food? How do we interact in its presence? How do we use food to communicate? And how does social interaction feed us? The book assumes no previous linguistic or anthropological knowledge but provides readers with the understanding to pursue further research on the subject. With a full glossary at the end of the book and additional tools hosted on an eResources page (such as recommended web and video links and some suggested research exercises), this book serves as an ideal introduction for courses on food, language, and food-and-language in anthropology departments, linguistics departments, and across the humanities and social sciences. It will also appeal to any reader interested in the semiotic interplay between food and language.

Author : Annabel Abbs
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781398502253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Food written by Annabel Abbs and published by Simon & Schuster Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exhilarating to read - thoughtful, heart-warming and poignant, with a quiet intelligence and elegance that does its heroine proud' Bridget Collins Two women Ten years A recipe for success Eliza Acton, despite never having boiled an egg, became one of the world's most successful food writers, revolutionizing cooking and cookbooks around the world. Her story is fascinating, joyful and truly inspiring. The award-winning author of The Joyce Girl seamlessly intertwines recipes and meticulously researched history, serving up the most thought-provoking and page-turning historical novel you'll read this year. Explore the enduring struggle for women's freedom, the exhilarating power of friendship, and the creative joy of cooking, through the life of Eliza Acton - finally out of the archives and into the public eye. England, 1835. Eliza Acton dreams of becoming a poet, but when she takes her new manuscript to a publisher, she's told that 'poetry is not the business of a lady'. Instead, he demands a cookery book. Eliza is hesitant but when her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country, she has no choice but to comply. Although she has never cooked before, she is determined to learn and to bring her skills as a poet to the craft of recipe writing. She hires young, impoverished Ann Kirby as her assistant and, before long, the two women develop a radical friendship crossing the divides of age and class. Together, Eliza and Ann break the mould of traditional cookbooks, changing the course of food writing forever. But in the process of doing so, their friendship is pushed to its very limits.

Author : Marion Nestle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520955064
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Politics written by Marion Nestle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over--has a downside. Our over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to persuade people to eat more--more food, more often, and in larger portions--no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being. Like manufacturing cigarettes or building weapons, making food is big business. Food companies in 2000 generated nearly $900 billion in sales. They have stakeholders to please, shareholders to satisfy, and government regulations to deal with. It is nevertheless shocking to learn precisely how food companies lobby officials, co-opt experts, and expand sales by marketing to children, members of minority groups, and people in developing countries. We learn that the food industry plays politics as well as or better than other industries, not least because so much of its activity takes place outside the public view. Editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, Nestle is uniquely qualified to lead us through the maze of food industry interests and influences. She vividly illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, schools pushing soft drinks, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights. When it comes to the mass production and consumption of food, strategic decisions are driven by economics--not science, not common sense, and certainly not health. No wonder most of us are thoroughly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics will forever change the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. By explaining how much the food industry influences government nutrition policies and how cleverly it links its interests to those of nutrition experts, this path-breaking book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.