Eastern Dishes in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain

Authors

  • William Sayers Cornell University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28395

Keywords:

Oxford English Dictionary, late 17th-century, United Kingdom, culinary terminology, lexicography

Abstract

The article looks at four examples of names for dishes found in the OED originating in the Far and Middle East that found a welcome home in Britain  and the roles of various intermediaries in this transmission and in the written record, seen at its broadest, are considered.

Author Biography

  • William Sayers, Cornell University

    William Sayers is at Cornell University. His gripping collection of etymological essays is a forthcoming Prospect Book under the title Eatymologies.

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Published

2014-10-01

Issue

PPC 101 (2014)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Sayers, William. 2014. “Eastern Dishes in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain”. Petits Propos Culinaires, October, 114-19. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28395.