![]() ![]() How long did it take you to track all of these down? What was the hardest to pin down? Writing about food and language was not only a consolation but a source of joy.ĮB: Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day has a lot of great world and word history. I was reminded daily of missing the pleasure that comes from talking and eating with a big group around a table. ![]() During the pandemic, I pulled the notes on food words together into a book, and in some ways the pandemic inspired the work. In graduate school I specialized in Old and Middle English literature and language, and as a professor teaching those subjects and various topics in linguistics, I amassed a huge pile of notes on interesting etymologies. I was also a dictionary reader, flipping pages in that fat book and marking words that intrigued me. Judith Tschann: As a kid from a family of eight, I loved our crowded, noisy dinner table. How did you get interested in food history and the history of food words? Her book Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language was published by Little, Brown in 2023 under its Voracious imprint.Įd Battistella: I really enjoyed Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day. Judith Tschann grew up in the Midwest and now lives, writes, and enjoys meals in Redlands, California. from Stony Brook University and has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Mortarboard Professor of the Year Award. Judith Tschann is medievalist and Professor Emerita at the University of Redlands where she courses the History of the English Language, English literature, and Food in Literature, among others. ![]()
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