A linguist’s history of the foods you love

"What we think of as our culture's foods — ketchup, or fish and chips — usually developed over long periods of time across many cultures," says Dan Jurafsky. Jurafsky is a Stanford linguist and author of the fascinating new book, "The Language of Food." When I reached him to talk about it, he began by telling me about fish and chips — "the most surprising" of the stories he unearthed.

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