Cute "Goofy Food Lingo" article in today's Washington Post.....

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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

 
Hood Envy---I love it! I have one: Pudge Porn. what we call the Foodtv channel on

another site I visit for weight loss surgery.

 
I seem to remember reading an article fairly recently...

in some magazine or another (maybe The Atlantic?) that compared the food tv industry to the porn film industry in that both promote highly idealized versions of reality. It was quite a good article.

 
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