Eat These Words
Lingua Franca 2018-11-29
Summary:
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’Tis the season to eat, drink — and do etymology, if only to work off a few of those holiday calories.
A menu of 20 items fills the November-December issue of Gerald Cohen’s self-published journal, Comments on Etymology, which is titled “Material for the Study of Food Terminology, Primarily From Barry Popik’s Research, Part 1.”
(Who is Barry Popik? A consulting editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America; a contributor to the Dictionary of America...