Here's a little food for thought: You, yes, you, the foodie par excellence who embraced gnocchi long before the masses, might not be quite as in-the-know as you think. Your taste buds are on point, ...

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 ...

For every person who loves to say nom nom, there’s a person who cringes at its utterance. Your high school English teacher, most likely. Like your English teacher, we fun-spoilers here at Paste Food ...

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 ...

Hungry for a new challenge? There's a new word game in town and it's perfect for food lovers. Hot on the heels of the Wordle phenomenon, "Phoodle," a word game with only food-related words, has ...

Words that capture an entire culinary experience or mood — such as “utepils,” in Norwegian — are common in other languages. English has a few such words, too. By Ruth Dsouza Prabhu In pre-Covid times, ...

Lovers of avocado toast can rejoice. The word "avo" -- for avocado -- is now listed at merriam-webster.com. Merriam-Webster recently announced it has added more than 840 new words to its online ...

Is xiaolongbao a bao or a dumpling? What exactly are “husband-and-wife lung slices” made of? With international travel to China on the rise, thanks much in part to its friendlier tourist visa policies ...