Publisher's Synopsis
Eat Your Words brings to the table a compilation of 6,000 often unusual and unfamiliar terms across twenty-one fact-packed courses, offering the reader a unique feast of learning as well as a fun and flavor-filled dip into the fascinating language of food and eating. All entries have been carefully selected from the most exhaustive unabridged dictionaries and extensive word troves available as well as a wide range of specialist resources and learned monographs in both print and digital formats. There is no scholarly apparatus - parts of speech, variant spellings, etymologies or phonetics - to burden the text. The entries are defined in the compiler's own words with economy of expression and ease of comprehension foremost in mind, seasoned with the occasional dash of wit.
