Dan Jurafsky, a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant," is professor and chair of linguistics and professor of computer science at Stanford University. He and his wife live in San Francisco.
"By a hundred years later, in the eighteenth century, the word dessert was borrowed into both British and American English. In British English the word retained its meaning of a light after-course. Given the American attitude toward food (something on the order of “Why eat an apple when you can eat a"
“These facets-respect for our differences, and faith in our shared humanity-are the ingredients in the recipe for compassion. That’s the final lesson for the language of food.”