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1998, ISBN: 9780375702983

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Vintage Books ed. 224 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-11-24T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.69 kg, Freizeit, Haus & Garten, Kategorien, … More...

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It's a browser's treasure of culinary etymological lore, but there's a table of contents that bespeaks a structure, starting with foods named for what they look like (such as rambutan, the sweet, red-bristle-covered fruit named for rambut, the Malay word for hair; or cabbage, which arose from the Old North French caboche, meaning head, making the phrase "a head of cabbage" redundant). Next comes a chapter on food names associated with religion and the supernatural (from angel-food cake and cappuccino, named after the brown cloaks of Capuchin monks, to pumpernickel, which supposedly means devil fart). There's a section on foods named by mistake, covering misnomers like geoduck, Bombay duck, and cold duck, none of which is related to the fowl, and a chapter on foods named for people and places, like Beef Wellington, Fettuccine Alfredo, Tootsie Rolls, and even Carpaccio (named after Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio, whose work often displayed a predilection for red).

Barnette delves into the stories of foods named for what's done to them or what they do to us (such as bangers, British sausages that'll explode if not pricked before cooking, and aubergine, which derives, via Arabic and Persian, from the Sanskrit for antifart vegetable.) And finally, there's a chapter on words derived from other words about food and drink, such as the dog term mutt, which came from muttonhead as an insult applied to dull people, which came from the assumption of stupidity of sheep, i.e., mutton.

Its index makes it a bona fide language reference, but it's more than just an academic resource. It's an etymologist's dream, a food lover's fantasy, and a general delight for anyone who takes joy in words and trivia. In telling the stories behind the names of foods, Barnette proves, as writers M.F.K. Fisher, Harold McGee, and Calvin Trillin have before, that a love of food and a fascination with language are not incompatible. --Stephanie Gold

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780375702983
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0375702989
Paperback
Publishing year: 1998
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
224 Pages
Weight: 0,290 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

Book in our database since 2007-03-31T11:50:52+01:00 (London)
Detail page last modified on 2024-03-11T00:49:32+00:00 (London)
ISBN/EAN: 0375702989

ISBN - alternate spelling:
0-375-70298-9, 978-0-375-70298-3
Alternate spelling and related search-keywords:
Book author: barnett, vermicelli, martha graham
Book title: got look, humble pie, look food, how look, späre, spare, ladyfingers and nun tummies

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