Book of the Week: The Language of Food

06 Feb 2015

Dan Jurafsky taught a class, wrote a blog and book on The Language of Food. If you want to get a feel for the book, you can watch a talk he gave at Wit.ai. If you’re from San Francisco, reading the book will give you a bit of nostalgia since he mentions a lot of places to eat. If you speak many foreign languages, you’ll get a lot of the references and see the connections. Looking at the language of food helps you understand how we are all connected. There’s a chapter explaining how ketchup came from Chinese fish sauce. The book is nice break from looking at language from a statistical point of view. [vimeo 114949808 w=500 h=281] Dan Jurafsky - the Language of Food from Wit.ai on Vimeo.