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Fruitcakes, couch potatoes, and other delicious expressions / Christine Ammer.

Title
Fruitcakes, couch potatoes, and other delicious expressions / Christine Ammer.
Author
Ammer, Christine
Publication
New York : Plume, c1995.

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Description
x, 246 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Traces the history and explains the usage of more than 1,000 food-related expressions, arranged into thirteen categories that cover the main kinds of food like fruits, vegetables, and meat, as well as terms from dining and cooking.
Alternative Title
Fruitcakes and couch potatoes, and other delicious expressions
Subject
  • English language > Terms and phrases
  • Dinners and dining > Terminology
  • English language > Etymology
  • Gastronomy > Terminology
  • Figures of speech
  • Food > Terminology
Genre/Form
  • Terminology
  • Dictionaries
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0452273684
LCCN
^^^94019915^
OCLC
  • 30593791
  • SCSB-12232048
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library