Summary: <p>This week's Please Explain is all about the language of food. <a rel="nofollow" class="guestlink">Dan Jurafsky</a>, professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, investigates why we eat toast at breakfast and raise a toast at dinner, whether Thanksgiving turkey has anything to do with the country of Turkey, and examines the many words used to describe foods. He's the author of <span class="book"><a rel="nofollow" title="buy this book at Amazon" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393240835/wnycorg-20/">The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu</a></span>.</p>
