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The language of food : a linguist reads the menu / Dan Jurafsky.

By: Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393240832 (hbk.)
  • 0393240835 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 641.32009 23
LOC classification:
  • TX353 .J78 2014
Contents:
How to read a menu -- Entr©âe -- From sikbâj to fish and chips -- Ketchup, cocktails, and pirates -- A toast to toast -- Who are you calling a turkey? -- Sex, drugs, and sushi rolls -- Potato chips and the nature of the self -- Salad, salsa, and the flour of chivalry -- Macaroon, macaron, macaroni -- Sherbet, fireworks, and mint juleps -- Does this name make me sound fat? : why ice cream and crackers have different names -- Why the Chinese don't have dessert.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks TX353 .J78 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001294668

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.

How to read a menu -- Entr©âe -- From sikbâj to fish and chips -- Ketchup, cocktails, and pirates -- A toast to toast -- Who are you calling a turkey? -- Sex, drugs, and sushi rolls -- Potato chips and the nature of the self -- Salad, salsa, and the flour of chivalry -- Macaroon, macaron, macaroni -- Sherbet, fireworks, and mint juleps -- Does this name make me sound fat? : why ice cream and crackers have different names -- Why the Chinese don't have dessert.

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