There are foodies and then there are food snobs. David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld deconstruct this food-obsessed creature in The Food Snob's Dictionary. Whether you're a food snob or just a foodie, you ...

Al dente: Italian for “to the tooth,” aka when pasta is cooked until it has a pleasant bite but isn’t too crunchy or too mushy. Baste: To brush or pour juices, sauce or melted fat over a piece of meat ...

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Last month, I mentioned a funny post on a blog called The Ethicurean, and said I hoped to read the author's book someday soon. And voila! Within days, a copy of Barry Foy's The Devil's Food Dictionary ...

Fluffernutter: a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow crème between two slices of white sandwich bread. If you’re from the Northeast, you may be familiar with the sweet “delicacy” known as ...

Our food-obsessed media landscape has proven fertile ground for wordplay. There are now new words to describe every food niche or gastronomical preference. Can't stand little kids running amok in your ...