Entries tagged with 'language'
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Why is "dressing" more appropriate for [the dish] when baked in a casserole pan? The term "dressing" could be equally read to imply "to dress," as in it dresses something...Just as the bird is stuffed with it, the bird is dressed (up) with it. —Lorenzo...
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You've come a long way, baby koodie. ["Ravenous Girl," print available at Plan59, starting at $16] Koodie is a new term making the rounds in the online food space. Coined by Phil Lempert, "Supermarket Guru": koodie: -noun Slang. A kid keenly interested in food, especially eating, cooking, or watching reruns of Julia Child. A kid who has an ardent or refined interest in food; a mini-gourmet; usually trained by one or both parents to have an unusual, and sometimes fanatic, desire to eat unusual foods. Evolution from the now-defunct word foodie. Can my eyes roll any harder?...
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Some folks have streets or schools named after them, others leave a legacy behind in desserts. Cakespy, aka Jessie Oleson, put together this impressive list of inspired sweets—everything from Cherry Garcia ice cream to graham crackers to Robert Redford cake....
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"Cranky from hunger." —Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan...
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Save the Words is a website looking out for the underdog words—the less-loved ones that could be dropped from the English language just like that. If you'd like future generations to be able to casually drop mowburnt (adjective; crops spoiled by becoming overheated) or riviation (noun; fishing), then click around on this nifty site and be a word savior. My favorite is ficulnean (adjective: worthless information regarding fig-tree wood). The digital adoption paperwork doesn't look too tough but it's unclear what special powers you're granted once you successfully adopt, say, ficulnean. Related Some New Food Words for Merriam-Webster's Dictionary Quote of the Day: Donut vs. Doughnut Spelling New Food Words in 2009 AP Stylebook...
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What bookish flavor combo would YOU fill it with? The New Yorker points us to the Facebook group People for a library-themed Ben & Jerry's flavor! As you'd imagine, word nerds can get pretty clever with the library-related puns: Gooey Decimal System: Dark fudge alphabet letters with caramel swirls in hazelnut ice cream.Writer’s Block: Coffee with fudge chunks and nicotine stains.Over-Goo Fudge: Chocolate with marshmallow and fudge.Sh-sh-sh-Sherbet! Key Lime or a chocolate/vanilla combination. Can you top those? I'll try my hand.... The Twoberry Medal: Strawberries, blueberries, and shortcake mixed into crème fraîche vanilla ice cream. It should be noted that Ben & Jerry's isn't considering a library-themed flavor at this point. It's simply a bunch of bookworms on Facebook...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added 100 new words for 2009, some of them food-related. Here are a few of those: acai, carbon footprint, goji, haram (sorta—can be applied to foods), locavore, schwarma. Points to anyone who can use all of those in one sentence....
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We're thoroughly enjoying The Food Section's Dictionary of Modern Gastronomy, which defines recently coined cooking- and food-related terms that have made it into the food-world lexicon—and maybe the mainstream one as well. Example: Goodfellas thin is the "measurement of a slice of garlic cut extremely thin using a razor blade." [via Village Voice]...
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Over the weekend, the New York Times' Schott's Vocab, a blog devoted to language, asked readers to submit Tom Swifties, a phrase with a punning relationship between the adverb describing the speaker and the action. There were some good food-centric ones in the mix: "Matzoh balls and gefilte fish for me," said Tom judiciously. “I adore hamburgers," he said with relish. “Why, that’s the best fruit smoothie I’ve ever tasted!” Tom said with aplomb. “I’m starving!” the crow squawked ravenously. Related New Food Words in 2009 AP Stylebook Food Words in the 2009 National Spelling Bee The Term 'Housemade' Is the New 'Homemade'...
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"...donuts are too awesome to be accompanied by an 'ugh.'" —@thebookpolice...
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