You can’t accuse Barry Foy of taking food too seriously. His satirical new book, “The Devil’s Food Dictionary: A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely of Lies” (Frogchart Press, ...

Last month, I mentioned a funny post on a blog called The Ethicurean, and said I hoped to read the author's book someday soon. And voila! Within days, a copy of Barry Foy's The Devil's Food Dictionary ...

Fluffernutter: a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow crème between two slices of white sandwich bread. If you’re from the Northeast, you may be familiar with the sweet “delicacy” known as ...

My English-Italian dictionary kept letting me down, just when I needed it the most—in front of menus in northern Italy last month. My Italian was good enough that I knew trofie was not truffle, as ...

After an amazing meal, we often denote the feelings we can't quite put into words with a "chef's kiss". This phrase has now officially entered the dictionary as a noun and is defined as "a gesture of ...