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The language of food: a linguist reads the menu

The language of food: a linguist reads the menu

Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist.

Author(s)

Jurafsky, Dan.

Book Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Publisher Location

New York

Published Year
2014