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Well-known member
Afishianado
A chef who likes to cook seafood.
-- New Jersey cooking teacher and cookbook author Vicki Caparulo
Flexitarian
Another term for a "semi-vegetarian," coined in early 1990s.
-- Voted most useful word in 2003 by the American Dialect Society
Meat Tooth
A craving or fondness for meat.
-http://www.wordspy.com
Culinologist
Chef cum food scientist; degree in culinology now offered at several universities.
-- From Sizzle magazine (American Culinary Federation Quarterly), Vol. I, Spring 2004
Culinary Bling-Bling
Expensive ingredients such as $30-a-pound exotic mushrooms.
-- Okay, I may have made this one up; also used in the Cleveland Scene, March 10, 2004
Paleocuisineology
Another name for food anthropology.
-- Mary Gunderson, culinary historian, from the Food Journal of Lewis and Clark Recipes
Farmageddon
The conflict over the safety and health benefits of genetically modified foods.
-- The Evening Standard, Feb. 10, 1999
Kitchen Performance Anxiety
I suffer from it!
-- The National Post (Canada), May 15, 2004
Hood Envy
Experienced by owners of newly remodeled kitchens when they see even bigger, better, more expensive and more powerful stove-exhaust fans elsewhere. The hood's the thing now.
-- Ellen Gerard, leader of a home kitchen tour in Glenwood, N.J., New York Times, Feb. 6, 2003
Old Stoves
North Beach, Calif., slang for cooks who have logged a lot of kitchen hours.
-- From a Les Dames d'Escoffier invitation event honoring great women of the kitchen
Trophy Stove
High-end appliance.
-- Molly O'Neill, the New Yorker, July 29, 2002
Out-Saucing
Use of canned, powdered or frozen sauces.
Save & Share
-- From an old "Shoe" comic strip
Speed Scratch Cooking
Marinated meat, fish or other foods ready to cook at home.
-- Supermarket-speak for partially prepared foods
Floodweiser
Canned water distributed to flood victims by Anheuser-Busch Corp.
--http://www.doubletongued.org
Gastroporn
A vulgar display of food.
-- Widely used; most recently, in the Sunday London Times, Feb. 19, 2006
Breastaurant
A restaurant that features scantily clad food servers. Often appears in stories about the Hooters chain.
--http://www.doubletongued.org
Kitchen Pass
Permission from one's spouse to golf, bowl, bike, play bridge, tennis or bunko.
-- Urban Dictionary
Sunday Taste, Tuesday Effort
Results of a quick, easy recipe.
-- From an www.epinions.com review of the "Magnolia Bakery Cookbook"
Unmet Flavor Needs
Why Heinz puts out new ketchup flavors.
-- A term used by a young PR man who phoned me about line of new Heinz ketchup flavors.
Culinary historian and former newspaper food editor Jane Mengenhauser revealed her closely held recipe for Tiny Tim cranberry tarts last year in Food.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030700284.html
A chef who likes to cook seafood.
-- New Jersey cooking teacher and cookbook author Vicki Caparulo
Flexitarian
Another term for a "semi-vegetarian," coined in early 1990s.
-- Voted most useful word in 2003 by the American Dialect Society
Meat Tooth
A craving or fondness for meat.
-http://www.wordspy.com
Culinologist
Chef cum food scientist; degree in culinology now offered at several universities.
-- From Sizzle magazine (American Culinary Federation Quarterly), Vol. I, Spring 2004
Culinary Bling-Bling
Expensive ingredients such as $30-a-pound exotic mushrooms.
-- Okay, I may have made this one up; also used in the Cleveland Scene, March 10, 2004
Paleocuisineology
Another name for food anthropology.
-- Mary Gunderson, culinary historian, from the Food Journal of Lewis and Clark Recipes
Farmageddon
The conflict over the safety and health benefits of genetically modified foods.
-- The Evening Standard, Feb. 10, 1999
Kitchen Performance Anxiety
I suffer from it!
-- The National Post (Canada), May 15, 2004
Hood Envy
Experienced by owners of newly remodeled kitchens when they see even bigger, better, more expensive and more powerful stove-exhaust fans elsewhere. The hood's the thing now.
-- Ellen Gerard, leader of a home kitchen tour in Glenwood, N.J., New York Times, Feb. 6, 2003
Old Stoves
North Beach, Calif., slang for cooks who have logged a lot of kitchen hours.
-- From a Les Dames d'Escoffier invitation event honoring great women of the kitchen
Trophy Stove
High-end appliance.
-- Molly O'Neill, the New Yorker, July 29, 2002
Out-Saucing
Use of canned, powdered or frozen sauces.
Save & Share
-- From an old "Shoe" comic strip
Speed Scratch Cooking
Marinated meat, fish or other foods ready to cook at home.
-- Supermarket-speak for partially prepared foods
Floodweiser
Canned water distributed to flood victims by Anheuser-Busch Corp.
--http://www.doubletongued.org
Gastroporn
A vulgar display of food.
-- Widely used; most recently, in the Sunday London Times, Feb. 19, 2006
Breastaurant
A restaurant that features scantily clad food servers. Often appears in stories about the Hooters chain.
--http://www.doubletongued.org
Kitchen Pass
Permission from one's spouse to golf, bowl, bike, play bridge, tennis or bunko.
-- Urban Dictionary
Sunday Taste, Tuesday Effort
Results of a quick, easy recipe.
-- From an www.epinions.com review of the "Magnolia Bakery Cookbook"
Unmet Flavor Needs
Why Heinz puts out new ketchup flavors.
-- A term used by a young PR man who phoned me about line of new Heinz ketchup flavors.
Culinary historian and former newspaper food editor Jane Mengenhauser revealed her closely held recipe for Tiny Tim cranberry tarts last year in Food.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030700284.html