Eat Your Words. Paul Convery

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      Eat Your Words

      The definitive dictionary for the discerning diner

      Paul Convery

      Mango Publishing

      Coral Gables

      Copyright © 2019 Paul Convery

      Published by Mango Publishing, a division of Mango Media Inc.

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      Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner

      Library of Congress Cataloging

      ISBN: (p) 978-1-64250-134-6 (e) 978-1-64250-135-3

      BISAC: CKB071000 COOKING / Reference

      LCCN: 2019948611

      Printed in the United States of America

      For eatymologists, bibliophagists, and

      verbivores everywhere

      Table of Contents

       Preface

       Part One

       Food, Glorious Food

      Of Flora, Fauna, and Food

       Chapter 1

Foodstuffs: Classes and Categories

Chapter 2

Items and Ingredients from the Plant World

Chapter 3

Items and Ingredients from the Animal World

       Chapter 4

       Fishing, Farming, and Food Production

      Dainty Dishes and Choice Cuisine

       Chapter 5

       A Cornucopia of Culinary Delights from the English-Speaking World

       Chapter 6

       A Cornucopia of Culinary Delights from the Rest of the World

      What’s Cooking?

       Chapter 7

       Culinary Arts and Artisans

       Chapter 8

       Tasting Notes: Flavour, Freshness (and So Forth)

      Something to Digest

       Chapter 9

       The Physiology of Consumption

       Chapter 10

       Food Science and Nutrition

       Part Two

       All the Trimmings

      You Are What You Eat

       Chapter 11

       Dietary Regimes and Feeding Routines

       Chapter 12

       Picas, Phagias, and Other Perverted Appetites

       Chapter 13

       Eat or Be Eaten: Nature’s Food Chain

      Whet Your Appetite

       Chapter 14

       Feast: Gluttony and Greed

       Chapter 15

       Fast: Denial and Disgust

       Chapter 16

       Famine: Hunger and Starvation