Eat Your Words. Paul Convery
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Название: Eat Your Words

Автор: Paul Convery

Издательство: Ingram

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СКАЧАТЬ 12). As an accompaniment to the above, the feeding practices and preferences of assorted vores, trophs, and phages across the natural world are also classified (Chapter 13).

      Our subsequent courses enjoin you, dear reader, to Whet Your Appetite. Moving swiftly from feast to fast to famine, Chapter 14 expresses the lexicon of gluttony and excess, Chapter 15 explores the idiom of aversion and disgust, while Chapter 16 outlines the language of hunger and want.

      The penultimate section, Catering for Every Taste, looks at the vocabulary of provisioning and purveying—covering the retail and restaurant trades, merchants and markets, food stores and eating establishments (Chapter 17)—before kitting out the kitchen and setting the table, checklisting the profusion of utensils and utilities used internationally in the several acts of cooking, serving, and eating (Chapter 18).

      We round our wordfest off with an invitation to Come Dine with Me. Here, we take an all-inclusive lexical tour of dinners, the fine dining experience, and finally diners themselves. Chapter 19 dishes up a gallimaufry of meals and mealtimes, light bites and courses, and occasions for feeding and feasting. Chapter 20 embraces eating matters and manners and all things epicurean—encompassing the faculty of (good) taste, the gratifications of gastronomy, and popular food philias and phobias. In closing, in Chapter 21 we consider ourselves: presenting a veritable thesaurus of trencher folk of every stripe—gourmets and gourmandisers, foodists and faddists, buzguts and belly-gods all.

      All entries have been carefully selected from the most exhaustive unabridged dictionaries and extensive word troves available, as well as a wide range of specialist resources and learned monographs in both print and digital formats.

      There is no scholarly apparatus—parts of speech, variant spellings, etymologies or phonetics—to burden the text. The entries are defined in the compiler’s own words with economy of expression and ease of comprehension foremost in mind, seasoned with the occasional dash of wit. Any errors are his and his alone; in keeping with the spirit of the book, he humbly pledges to eat his own words in such event.

      So, why not expand your vocabulary and not your waistline by taking a hearty bite from Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner.

      Bon appétit.

      Paul Convery, Glasgow, September 2019

      Food, Glorious Food

      “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

      —George Bernard Shaw

      acates * bought-in food, especially fresh or luxury provisions; catering supplies

      acetaria * salad plants and vegetables, considered collectively

      adipsa * foods which do not produce thirst following their consumption

      aliment * food formally considered as sustenance and nourishment for the body

      alternative protein * substitute meat or dairy products developed in the laboratory

      ambient food * goods which retain their freshness when stored at room temperature

      ambrosia * the food of the Olympian gods; to mere mortals, a bite of heavenly taste

      analects * dropped or discarded morsels of food; figuratively, crumbs of wisdom

      appast * an archaic generic term for food, in the sense of one’s “daily bread”

      assature * roasted food, especially meat

      bag & bottle * food and drink, informally

      bakemeat * baked food, notably pastries and pies

      beefmeat * bureaucratese for the flesh of cattle, as foodstuff and agricultural product

      belly-timber * grub for one’s gut

      bioengineered food * edible produce from natural organisms, either flora or fauna, that have undergone genetic manipulation in some form

      bite & sup * something to eat

      blubber-totum * food no better than thin gruel, as too watery soup or weak stew

      bolus * a ball of soft, chewed food matter just prior to swallowing and digestion

      breadkind * vegetables with a high starch content, such as yams and sweet potatoes

      breadstuff * baked goods collectively; also, constituent items for baking such as flour

      broma * an obsolete medical term for convalescent fare better chewed than supped

      buckone * a mere morsel or mouthful of food

      bullamacow * tinned or canned meat; also, cattle or livestock, in South Seas pidgin

      bushfood * any traditional Australian Aboriginal dietary staple, normally eaten raw

      bushmeat * any African wild animal hunted for food, or the flesh therefrom

      butchermeat * the flesh of domesticated animals slaughtered for the table as traditionally sold by butchers, viz beef, lamb, veal, mutton, and pork

      cackling-farts * eggs, in the colourful language of the erstwhile “canting crew”

      cag-mag * unwholesome, spoiled, or downright bad food of any kind

      calavance * edible beans, generically considered; by extension, food made from same

      carbonado * grilled or barbecued food

      carnish * meat, being the flesh of any animal used as food

      cassan * cheese, in the vernacular of yesteryear

      cerealia * cereal foods, such as corn, collectively

      cetaries * a neglected synonym for seafood, being victuals sourced from open waters

      champignon * a catch-all culinary term for mushrooms, notably as a delicacy food

      chankings * food matter that has been chewed and subsequently spat out—olive pits, fruit stones, gristle, and the like

      charcuterie * cold pork cuts as a class of meat product: includes ham, bacon, and pâté

      chazerai * any truly awful food or dish; more strictly, non-kosher fare

      cheeseparing * a miserly sliver or miserable scrap of food

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