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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

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 | #86729 in Books |  Dan Jurafsky |  2015-10-13 |  2015-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.20 x.70 x5.60l,.44 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very interesting|By C. Cranke|Very interesting. I had to write a review on this title in an English class in college and write a lengthy review over it for my professor. The author is a Stanford professor with a BA in linguistics and PhD in Comp Science. He writes about the origin of many very common food items from Ketchup - Catsup depending on where you're from - to fish and| |“[Jurafsky's] brilliant achievement is to weave together the journey food makes through culture with the journey its name makes through language.”
- Peter Sokolowski, New York Times Book

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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?

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