Words to eat by five foods and the culinary history of the English language

Using sources that range from Roman histories to Julia Child's recipes, Ina Lipkowitz shows how saturated with French and Italian names the English culinary vocabulary is. But the words for our most basic foodstuffs--bread, milk, leek, meat, and apple--are still rooted in Old English.

Main Author: Lipkowitz, Ina.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Edition: 1st ed.
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