"Will whet the appetites of word lovers."--Chicago Tribune
"If you've ever floundered while decoding a sushi menu, puzzled over which sauce signifies what ingredients in classic French Cuisine or tried desperately to pronounce huitlacoche in a good Mexican restaurant, help is at hand.... Once fortified by this verbal batterie de cuisine you'll be able to
roder huitlacoche, palacsinta, saganaki, and a salmagundi with confidence.... The culinary equivalent of a Berlitz phrase book, a handy reference of more than 2000 gastronomic terms and ingredients beginning with acorn squash and ending with zwieback."--Malachy Duffy, The New York Times Book Review
"Just the lexicon to make you a smarter diner and cook. But 'Eating Your Words' is more than a culinary dictionary. Here and there, Grimes breaks up the sections with essays, timelines and lists on such topics as mock foods and fad diets (the first was William the Conqueror's alcohol diet in 1087,
followed by the first low-carb diet in the 1860s, the tapeworm diet in the 1920s and the blood-type diet in 1996, among many others)."--Sacramento Bee (Holiday Gift Book Roundup)
"Will whet the appetites of word lovers."--Chicago Tribune
"If you've ever floundered while decoding a sushi menu, puzzled over which sauce signifies what ingredients in classic French Cuisine or tried desperately to pronounce huitlacoche in a good Mexican restaurant, help is at hand.... Once fortified by this verbal batterie de cuisine you'll be able to
roder huitlacoche, palacsinta, saganaki, and a salmagundi with confidence.... The culinary equivalent of a Berlitz phrase book, a handy reference of more than 2000 gastronomic terms and ingredients beginning with acorn squash and ending with zwieback."--Malachy Duffy, The New York Times Book Review
"Just the lexicon to make you a smarter diner and cook. But 'Eating Your Words' is more than a culinary dictionary. Here and there, Grimes breaks up the sections with essays, timelines and lists on such topics as mock foods and fad diets (the first was William the Conqueror's alcohol diet in 1087,
followed by the first low-carb diet in the 1860s, the tapeworm diet in the 1920s and the blood-type diet in 1996, among many others)."--Sacramento Bee (Holiday Gift Book Roundup)
"Will whet the appetites of word lovers."--Chicago Tribune
"If you've ever floundered while decoding a sushi menu, puzzled over which sauce signifies what ingredients in classic French Cuisine or tried desperately to pronounce huitlacoche in a good Mexican restaurant, help is at hand.... Once fortified by this verbal batterie de cuisine you'll be able to roder huitlacoche, palacsinta, saganaki, and a salmagundi with confidence.... The culinary equivalent of a Berlitz phrase book, a handy reference of more than 2000 gastronomic terms and ingredients beginning with acorn squash and ending with zwieback."--Malachy Duffy, The New York Times Book Review
"Just the lexicon to make you a smarter diner and cook. But 'Eating Your Words' is more than a culinary dictionary. Here and there, Grimes breaks up the sections with essays, timelines and lists on such topics as mock foods and fad diets (the first was William the Conqueror's alcohol diet in 1087, followed by the first low-carb diet in the 1860s, the tapeworm diet in the 1920s and the blood-type diet in 1996, among many others)."--Sacramento Bee (Holiday Gift Book Roundup)
"Will whet the appetites of word lovers."--Chicago Tribune
"If you've ever floundered while decoding a sushi menu, puzzled over which sauce signifies what ingredients in classic French Cuisine or tried desperately to pronounce huitlacoche in a good Mexican restaurant, help is at hand.... Once fortified by this verbal batterie de cuisine you'll be able to roder huitlacoche, palacsinta, saganaki, and a salmagundi with confidence.... The culinary equivalent of a Berlitz phrase book, a handy reference of more than 2000 gastronomic terms and ingredients beginning with acorn squash and ending with zwieback."--Malachy Duffy, The New York Times Book Review
"Just the lexicon to make you a smarter diner and cook. But 'Eating Your Words' is more than a culinary dictionary. Here and there, Grimes breaks up the sections with essays, timelines and lists on such topics as mock foods and fad diets (the first was William the Conqueror's alcohol diet in 1087, followed by the first low-carb diet in the 1860s, the tapeworm diet in the 1920s and the blood-type diet in 1996, among many others)."--Sacramento Bee (Holiday Gift Book Roundup)
