The Language of Food Quotes

“Taste, says Bourdieu, is “first and foremost . . . negation . . . of the tastes of others.” A high-status group maintains its status by legitimizing some tastes but not others, independent of inherent artistic merit, and by passing on these tastes as cultural preferences.”
― Dan Jurafsky, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

“Chekyns upon soppes” (basically chicken on cinnamon toast) from the 1545 early Tudor cookbook A Propre Newe Booke of Cokerye: Chekyns upon soppes. Take sorel sauce a good quantitie and put in Sinamon and suger and lette it boyle and poure it upon the soppes then laie on the chekyns.”
― Dan Jurafsky, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

“affect”
― Dan Jurafsky, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu