Sometimes restaurants seem to dip into the thesaurus for words to justify charging double for a dish. Redditors share the ...

If you don't speak Thai, decoding a Thai restaurant menu can be tough. Several experts told us the Thai words ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In September, the perspicacious minds at Merriam-Webster added a whopping 690 words and phrases to its dictionary — one of which ...

Italian cuisine has a deceptive virtue: it seems easy to understand. Pasta, tomato, cheese, rice, a few familiar sauces and the impression of being in familiar territory. But it is enough to open an ...

This year's Sõnaus word-creation contest focused on finding new food-related terms, and the jury has selected the top entries ...

This word is pronounced broo-SKET-tah. Never, ever, bru-sheh-ta. It comes from the Italian bruscare (to roast over coals), ...

The world of food is full of bizarre terms, some of which are nearly impossible to pronounce correctly on the first try. Many culinary terms come from other languages, so unless you've got some ...

It’s September, which means that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is due for its quarterly update. And, as expected, as our food culture grows in this country, so does the list of culinary words ...

Words are full of pulchritude, and while using such a term to describe words as beautiful might seem a bit supercilious and sesquipedalian in this day and age, the truth is that the dictionary holds ...