The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

Dan Jurafsky with Steven Menasche (Narrator)

6 hours, 16 minutes first pub 2014 (editions) user-added

nonfiction food and drink history informative medium-paced
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Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the wor...

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