More Obscure Food Words
Like many bookish people, I have a real weakness for rare and obscure words, words with unusual etymologies, and words that were totally common and sensible in a different period […]
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Obscure food etymology
As consciousness about food and food culture increases, so do the number of neologisms. These rely on a shared familiarity with the base terms. Locavore, for example, depends on the […]
The definition of food, and other arbitrary agreements
I was looking for an Oxford English Dictionary-approved definition of food for one of my dissertation chapters, and came across a few older news reports on food terms recently added […]
