Title: The philology of taste
First published: 1995
Description: "Food was the first topic of conversation (Genesis 3:1-4) and remains the most popular. Yet dictionaries omit most of the vocabulary of food and cooking, and often go astray on words they do define. Cookbooks have even less to say about the subject. The Philology of Taste" fills this vacuum."
Subjects: English language, Etymology, Figures of speech, Food, Gastronomy, Language, Terminology, Terms and phrases
LC classification: TX349 .R32 1995