Description:
From everyday foods to exotic dishes, from the herbs and spices of medieval England to the implements of the modern kitchen, Cupboard Love explores the fascinating stories behind familiar and not-so-familiar gastronomic terms.
Brief description: Mark Morton is the author of The End: Closing Words for a Millennium (winner of the Alexander Isbister Award for nonfiction); The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex (republished in the UK as Dirty Words), and Cooking with Shakespeare. He's also the author of more than 50 columns for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (University of California Press) and has written and broadcast more than a hundred columns about language and culture for CBC Radio. His young adult science fiction novel The Headmasters came out from Shadowpaw Press in early 2024. Mark has a PhD in sixteenth-century literature from the University of Toronto and has taught at several universities in France and Canada. He currently works at the University of Waterloo. He and his wife, Melanie Cameron, (also an author) have four children, three dogs, one rabbit, and no time.
Review Quotes:
"Erudite and imaginative." - Margaret Visser, author of the bestselling Much Depends on Dinner
"A whimsical, side-splitting, erudite and sometimes cheeky book." - The Globe and Mail
"Erudite and entertaining--a delectable feast for all verbivores." - Hugh Rawson, author of Devious Derivations and Director of Penguin Reference books
"Cupboard Love offers a banquet of food for thought. Mark Morton's delicious eat-ymologies show that everyday we say a mouthful a truly eat our words." - Richard Lederer, bestselling author of numerous books about language
"Morton lays out the histories of hundreds of food-related terms as deftly and completely as any casual reader could wish." - The Atlantic
"Thoroughly researched, well presented, fascinating . . ." - Choice Reviews