The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

By
Dan Jurafsky
Dan Jurafsky
2014 • 238 pages

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654 books

Nonfiction

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Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

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18 books

Food

FetesandFika
Amanda
The flavor thesaurus
A Thirst for Empire
Veganomics
Consider the fork
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

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155 books

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Amanda
No Mud, No Lotus
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
Brief History of Time
The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok
The Miracle Club

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13 books

Linguistics

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Amanda
Shady characters
The Stuff of Thought
The Spell of the Sensuous
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Six Names of Beauty
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
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49 books

Food Writing

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Kaitlin
Last dinner on the Titanic
Grinding It Out
Three Squares
Confections of a closet master baker
52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust

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Sarah
A Piece of the World
Imprudence
DONT CALL ME PRINCESS
Flame in the Mist
Thirteen Rising
The Heart's Invisible Furies
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Inbox

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Remake
Aloha from Hell
Tuck
Scarlet
Hood
A Discovery of Witches

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802 books

Nonfiction

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Laura
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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645 books

History

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Laura
From Dawn to Decadence
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day
National Geographic Society Atlas of World History
How the Irish Saved Civilization

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Linguistics

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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

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Social Studies

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Between the World and Me
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism

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118 books

Food Eating

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Court
Relish
Eating Animals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
Chicken with Plums
Chez Moi: A Novel
Bake Sale

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224 books

Non Fiction

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Court
The Personality Puzzle
Health Psychology
The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations
The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain: Explorations in Visual Cognition
Psychology and Life
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Revolution in the Head

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56 books

Own But Unread

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Court
Bright not broken
Finish This Book
Travels with Charley
The Happiness Project
How to Be Good

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20 books

Food

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Adam
Ruhlman's Twenty
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Crying in H Mart
Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto
Relish
The Food of a Younger Land

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152 books

History

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A People's History of the United States
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
A Stillness at Appomattox
The Last Full Measure
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Cleopatra: A Life

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Non Fiction

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Honeymoon with My Brother
The case for books : past, present and future
Yours ever
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday

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54 books

Food

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Salt: A World History
The Food of a Younger Land
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven : The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking

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28 books

Language Reading

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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
Reading the OED
The Mother Tongue
The case for books : past, present and future
Yours ever
Curiosities of literature

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7 books

Evolution

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Phyllis
Darwin's ghosts the secret history of evolution
Relics of Eden
Monkey Girl
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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17 books

Essay

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
The Heroine's Bookshelf
Complete Stories
Bossypants
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate