Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 22:34:58 -0400

From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: LADYFINGERS & NUN'S TUMMIES review; "Supermodels" again



BOOK REVIEW:

LADYFINGERS & NUN'S TUMMIES:

A LIGHTHEARTED LOOK AT HOW FOODS GOT THEIR NAMES

by Martha Barnette

213 pages, $20

Times Books, Random House (1997)



David Shulman told me about this. "There's a new book on food words,"

he said.

Really?

WHY????????????????

Was anything really wrong with the first ten or so books about this?

Sure, none of them were too scholarly (perhaps Christine Ammer's book was

the best of this type), but still....

LADYFINGERS doesn't have a bibliography. If you're doing a book that's

been done before, that's a pretty good idea.

Let's wait before I throw this book completely across the room. Let's

see page 119:



As for _hot dog_, at the beginning of this century a famous cartoonist

named T. A. "Tad" Dorgan supposedly drew one of these sausages to resemble a

dachsund on a long bun, a sort of visual pun that played upon the fact that

the funny-looking dog was a jocular symbol for things German, as well as the

growing public suspicion that these sausages contained meat from sources

other than farm animals.



Was there no one at Times Books/Random House to stop this?

Oh well.

"A LIGHTHEARTED LOOK AT HOW FOODS GOT THEIR NAMES."

Make that really, really light. When you're doing the 11th book on a

subject, it really shouldn't be worse than the other ten....



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