Summary: | Annotation The first American dictionary to explore the relationship between the literal and the nonliteral (i.e., idiomatic and metaphorical) language of the cooking and eating of food. Annotation A referenced dictionary of the literal and nonliteral language of cooking and eating. The dictionary is "referenced" in the sense that it is based on a survey of over thirty books, most of them dictionaries, that record selected literal terms and selected nonliteral terms and expressions in the field of food.
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