How do you read a menu? Top down? Zoom in on the boxed listings? Decide by price? Whether there are photos? Or how they are described? All these are factors to how we read a…
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Presentation at Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore
We were speakers at the Monday Morning Lectures series at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore. Invited by Friends of the Museum, we gave a live presentation on beef and its historical and cultural significance…
“Trailblazers”: Singapore’s Media Discourse of Lab-Grown Meat
Lab-grown meat, cultured meat, cell-based meat- what are they and what do they mean for the future of food? We explored this topic and talked about our research in a presentation for fellow linguists who also…
Honduran Expressions
Living in Honduras for the past few months, we’ve picked up several Hondurenismos expressions used by the locals. Here are characteristics of how Hondurans speak and interact. A la orden– you’re welcome. Hondurans respond with a…
Language and gender on food radio
Radio is one of the most accessible and flexible forms of mass communications, providing news, education, and entertainment to millions of people around the world. For radio phone-ins, the host, the dominant voice, invites listeners…
10 Best Practices to Learning the Language of Food
Have you tried learning another language? Then, you know it takes practice, but there are tricks and best practices to make it easier for you to succeed at learning another language. Here we take the…
What We Can Learn From America’s Test Kitchen: Goal Setting
Known for its reliable recipes, the culinary media company America’s Test Kitchen and its affiliate magazines Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country have a method that we can learn from in our own goal-setting. According to…