If you’re a pegan, then your diet is limited to a combination of paleo and vegan. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Pegan Diet” Grant, a word that’s new to me is pegan, P-E-G-A-N. Some kind of vegan? Yes. Somebody that eats only...
Ben in Sydney, Australia, writes with a suggestion for a word describing that feeling you get upon discovering that your favorite restaurant has closed. He calls it noshtalgia, and shares a touching story about his own experience with it...
Food that fell on the floor that you go ahead and eat anyway? That’s a floorio. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Floorios” I increase my vocabulary daily and today’s word is Florio. It’s food that you drop on the floor and then eat...
In the US, if you step on a piece of Lego, you scream bloody murder; in the UK, you step on a piece of Lego and scream blue murder. Also, in the US, you eat scrambled eggs; in the UK, it’s scrambled egg. This is part of a complete episode...
The words we choose can change attitudes — and change lives. A swing-dance instructor has switched to gender-neutral language when teaching couples. He says that using words like “leader” and “follower” actually works better than using gendered...
Dallas Morning News restaurant critic Leslie Brenner has written about the popular fish dish called poke, which takes its name from a Hawaiian word that means “to cut crosswise.” Many other foods take their names for the way they’re sliced...
