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Overview
Cooking may be simply the provision of nourishment palatable to the human body, but it needs language to soar beyond the kitchen stove and a viable vocabulary to make communication between cooks and diners profitable and possible. This is a rich field for the collective endeavours of the 28th Symposium at Oxford. Linguistics and etymology may be a tool for unravelling the history of foodstuffs and their migration from one culture to another; or language may supply a social and cultural subtext to what would otherwise be solely a culinary message; or the tools of literary criticism may be unleashed with profit on texts of cookery manuals or recipe books.
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- ISBN-13: 9781903018798
- ISBN-10: 190301879X
- Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
- Publish Date: July 2010
- Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
- Page Count: 390
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