It’s time to share my new words for the week. These all came from Best Food Writing of 2009, an article by Timothy Taylor, The Cranky Connoissur.
1. appellation: Beef and pork identified by breed and farm, just as a wine might be by a variety and appellation.
Appellation means
2. oenophiles: Beyond the oenophiles, who seems to have been around and cranky forever, all these new categories of taste refinement seem suddenly to be blossoming.
Oenophile (ēnəˌfīl) is a connoisseur of wines.
3. eschew: And you might agree if you’d been on Saltspring Island last year watching an American tourist, who was provisioning his evening barbecue, eschew a beautiful organic chicken because it wasn’t from the island but from Duncan, barely 10 kilometres away.
Eschew means to abstain from or deliberately avoid using something.
What new words did you find this week? I hope you’ll join us in Wondrous Words Wednesday. Be sure to visit Kathy, our doughty (brave and persistent) leader.
I am not an oenophile but I would like to change that one day!
Fun words!!
I’m surprised the word oenophile isn’t all over the place up in Northern California!
When I first read appelation, I thought of the word that means ghost instead of the word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others. Oops!
Here are my words for this week…
http://westietherapy.blogspot.com/2010/03/wondrous-words-malicious-intent.html
Great new words! Are you going to become a wine connoisseur now? I’m very proud to be doughty, by the way! Thanks for participating!
Our 80 y-o next-door neighbor gave me a little volume to read (his favorite book) called “Lessons of History” by Will and Ariel Durant. As RVers, you’ll appreciate that it is a little bit rare to even find someone who likes to talk about reading at all, much less something as challenging as this. Only about 100 pages, maybe less but… yikes it made me think! I just had to finish it before they left for the season this a.m., because I was so delighted he wanted to share his favorite book! So I’ve just been doing quick glances at my fav blogs. Glad to be back now!!
Here are a few of the (many) new words I read in that book: contumety, suzerainty, fellaheen, and bizarries. I shan’t bore you with the definitions in this post — but I looked them all up — because your Wednesday posts have nudged me to do that!! I’m glad I did, and yet somehow, I don’t think those words are gonna’ make it into my everyday conversation any time soon.
Oenophiles: sometimes I wonder who comes up with such words! Ha. A good list, and I love how you included a word in your comment about Kathy, too.