MARTHA BARNETTE
Books
Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies
The New Yorker:
“Everything in it is delightful to learn. Barnette takes us through languages and across millennia in a charming style that, starting with words describing things we eat, turns out to offer endless food for thought.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.:
“Why didn’t anyone think of this before? . . . What fun Martha Barnette has made of it all, every name for every dish explained and traced and jollied.”
Los Angeles Times, 100 Best Books of the Year:
“Truly delicious … a vast multicultural smorgasbord of our culinary delights … a tour de force.”
Dog Days and Dandelions
Publishers Weekly:
“Beastly fun! … a sprightly compendium of the animal kingdom’s impact on the king’s English. Arranged alphabetically, the 300-plus entries make for good browsing, and readers with a penchant for odd and underused words, such as myrmidon (an unprincipled lackey) and musteline (resembling a weasel) will find them aplenty here.”