New Food Words in 2009 AP Stylebook
For newspaper reporters and editors, the Associated Press Stylebook is ... well ... if not the Bible, then Leviticus at least. It lays out all the rules and regulations that ink-stained wretches are supposed to follow when faced with sticky situations regarding spelling, grammar, and punctuation. While Serious Eats leans closer to the Chicago Manual of Style (go, serial comma!), I cut my teeth on AP and tend to pick up the latest version every couple of years. I'll definitely grab the 2009 edition, which has a few new food words in it, according to the AP Stylebook Twitter account. They include baba ghanoush, chipotle, Key lime, and Parmesan. [via @Atlantic_Food]
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6 Comments:
Glad to see that the food words you have listed meet with my prejudices; now if only they could see the light on the serial comma. The best example for including it (not my own, but I wish it were): I'd like you to meet my parents, the pope and Mother Teresa.
Likeswords at 5:19PM on 06/01/09
@Likeswords: I've never seen that example before, but I love it. Thanks! Illustrates the usefulness of the serial comma perfectly.
Adam Kuban at 5:22PM on 06/01/09
hey it's 5:30 and i still don't know what i'm making for dinner tonight!
mr guy at 5:29PM on 06/01/09
@mr guy: Wow. Didn't know anyone noticed that Dinner Tonight usually posts around 4:30 ET—and that I was late with getting it published today. It's up: Shrimp, Arugula, and Caper Mayonnaise on Brioche
Adam Kuban at 5:43PM on 06/01/09
Re: the serial comma cautionary example--I have a slight preference for the version that I teach to my students: "My role models are my parents, the Pope and Sinead O'Connor." It evokes the smoke of political protest along with the tang of scandal. And, it eliminates the mental gymnastics of imagining a party attended by all those luminaries. I think I learned it from Karen Gordon's _Transitive Vampire_ (a great book), but I'm not sure.
okupin at 8:37PM on 06/01/09
okupin, quite wonderful!
Likeswords at 12:27PM on 06/05/09