Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

This book explores the language we use around food and as the puny title suggests, there is a lot of more pun involved than one might expect. Historian and linguist Judith Tschann provides all the trivia and knowledge behind the language of ingredients and food. She begins by exploring the fundamentally innate survival role of both food and words to the human race. They pair well together. She hunts for the etymology, that is the linguistic origin, of many food products. Why do some people call coffee a cup o’ Joe? Diving into questions like this, Tscann delivers. This book is marketed towards trivia lovers, food enthusiasts, linguistic nerds, and people who are are into culinary history. She’ll draw interesting connections and on facts that will surprise the unassuming reader.

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