Food lovers may spend hours mulling over the contents of their dinners, or angling a camera at their favorite pizza slice just right. But it's not often we give much thought to the words we use to describe our food. I'm not talking about flowery adjectives—what about the very names of foods themselves? In her new book, Words to Eat By: Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language, English professor Ina Lipkowitz explores the linguistic history of meat, bread, leeks, apples, and milk. She explores the origins of these words, their changing connotations over time, and what they have come to represent today. More