The bistro was dark and noisy on the cold Boston night when my kids and I slid into the dark wood booth to have dinner. Around us, office workers, maybe some of the same ones we’d spied in a nearby ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. What can you tell about a restaurant from its menu? A lot more than what’s cooking.

In “The Language of Food,’’ Dan Jurafsky’s fun, fascinating, and absorbing linguistic analysis of our food culture and its origins, the Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science cites an ...

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The language that chefs use says as much about us as it does about them. By Sam Corbin Fine dining in America may be a privilege for the few, but its lore is universal. You know fancy when you see it: ...

The words we use for everyday foods contain clues to their origins and hint at their ancient travels across the globe as they merge, fuse and sometimes take on different forms altogether. Stanford ...

In 1919 the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York, opened its first restaurant, with offerings notable for their descriptive simplicity: “lamb,” “potatoes: boiled,” and so on. Nearly 100 years later, the ...

The past few years, I’ve lived in the two best food cities in the US — New York and San Francisco — and before that I ate my way through three serious contenders: Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. I’m ...

Winamp media player allows users to change its menu language. The player supports multiple languages including English. In this tutorial, we will use the English pack as an example, however, you can ...