This is a review for a Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner by Paul Convery which I was sent a copy of in exchange for this review. The thoughts in the review are mine and my families no, one else.
I will be reading Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner this week while I prepare Charlie’s lessons for Cooking in his Homeschool class.
As I learn the meaning of the words in Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner we can incorporate them in our cooking. As well as use these words for our Language Arts class using them in sentences and as Spelling words preparing Charlie for 7th grade.
Charlie and I can use the pictures in Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner for our Art class. I like how the novel is broken down into categories as Charlie can chose which chapters he wants to read.
I will be able to share about the Author with Charlie as he is included in the Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner along with a Postscript and a Bibliography which Charlie and I can go back over so I know he knows what one is and why its included in the novel.
The Comprehensive Etymology of Eating
Eat Your Words is a gloriously gluttonous glossary of all things grub and gastronomy: It’s a true treat for anyone who loves language as much as they love food. With witty and fun definitions of everything from aeroponics to zoosaprophagy, this compilation offers definitions of 6,000 unusual and unfamiliar terms across twenty-one fact-packed courses.
For bon viveurs and verbivores alike: Are you a gourmet who knows the difference between Maldon and Morton salt? Maybe you’re an expert on the properties of heat in cooking. Or you’re a cocktail connoisseur with a taste for tequila.
Eat Your Words is a surprising treat for anyone who loves learning about food and cooking. If you’re looking for cooking gifts for a friend who devoured Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, this culinary dictionary is the perfect fit.
A delight for word nerds: For Scrabble stars and anyone who excels at Words with Friends, Eat Your Words is a clever guide to little-known culinary terms that will give you that special edge.
In Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for Discerning Diners, you’ll find terms about:
- A cornucopia of culinary treats from around the world
- The cultivation, selling, and serving of every food you can imagine
- The appetites of diners and their dinners across all species
This new dictionary from the author of Drinktionary: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Drinker and Inkhorn’s Erotonomicon: An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians is the fun reference book you didn’t know you wanted. Fans of Tequila Mockingbird and On Food and Cooking will enjoy this fascinating journey into the language of food and eating.
About:
Paul Convery is a Glasgow-based ‘word doctor’ with over 20 years’ experience as a proofreader, copy-editor and magazine production manager. His earlier academic grounding includes postgraduate language studies (University of Strathclyde) and doctoral research in modern European history (University of Glasgow).
He hopes EAT YOUR WORDS: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner (Mango, 2019) – the fruit of his latest literary and lexicographical labours – will reach a hungry and appreciative reading public, providing food for thought and spicing up the reader’s lex life.
A lifelong logophile, Paul is also the author of DRINKTIONARY: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Drinker (Book Guild, 2017), and INKHORN’S EROTONOMICON: An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians (Matador, 2012).
When not working, word-hunting or writing, Paul can often be found enjoying a quiet curry night out with family or friends. No great culinarian himself, alas, he is nevertheless a passable sous-chef in his domestic goddess’s kitchen and a diligent dish-washer-upper.
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Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
