Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food-related words including fluffernutter, air fryer and ghost kitchen were included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2021.

Franklin Roosevelt took nearly a month of preparation and a full 10,000 words—his longest message ever—to propose his food policy to Congress. He had reason for the work and the words: he knew that to ...

Food has a funny way of travelling across borders faster than pronunciation does. We happily order sushi, sip lattes, spread ...

Words are full of pulchritude, and while using such a term to describe words as beautiful might seem a bit supercilious and sesquipedalian in this day and age, the truth is that the dictionary holds ...

Language differences can be delightful and confusing, especially when it comes to food words between British English and American English. In this video we explore twenty British food terms that often ...

It’s September, which means that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is due for its quarterly update. And, as expected, as our food culture grows in this country, so does the list of culinary words ...

Every three months, The Oxford English Dictionary adds new words to its language arsenal, indicating their increasingly common usage among Americans, such as “jeggings,” “bromance,” and “muggle.” And ...

I'm a former National Spelling Bee contestant and a Food & Wine editor. Here's an exercise in swallowing my pride. Even a former National Spelling Bee contestant and Food & Wine editor can still get ...

New research shows that brain responses to written food words differ between lean individuals and those with obesity, and suggests that both stress and genetics could influence excess eating. The pair ...