Doreen O. (dolver) -
I thought this would be such an interesting book....learning where all the strange names came from. It was like trudging thru a college text! ACK! If you are interested in knowing the Latin (or insert any other language, dead or alive) for the foods, then this book is for you.
If you were hoping this book would be straight forward and funny....not so much! Lighthearted it isn't!
Describing why we call it a HEAD of cabbage: "...cabbage having arisen from an Old North French word for 'head,' caboche, which in turn may be linked to the Latin word for head, caput, making cabbage a distant relative of such heady terms as decapitate......" and on and on and on
If you were hoping this book would be straight forward and funny....not so much! Lighthearted it isn't!
Describing why we call it a HEAD of cabbage: "...cabbage having arisen from an Old North French word for 'head,' caboche, which in turn may be linked to the Latin word for head, caput, making cabbage a distant relative of such heady terms as decapitate......" and on and on and on
