Food Nerd Alert! Oxford English Dictionary Updates with Words Like Banh Mi and Muffin-Top

Consumer Reports has an amusing musing about the Oxford English Dictionary's latest online update -- including some pretty sophisticated culinary terms. Know what chermoula is? How about kleftiko? Had cause to order a babycino lately? Leave us your definition (real or imagined) for any or all of these terms on the...
By Amy Silverman
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Consumer Reports has an amusing musing about the Oxford English Dictionary’s latest online update — including some pretty sophisticated culinary terms.

Know what chermoula is? How about kleftiko? Had cause to order a babycino lately?

Leave us your definition (real or imagined) for any or all of these terms on the Chow Bella Facebook page (and don’t forget to “like” us!) and we’ll save you a box of our brand-new Chow Bella mints. Fresh!  

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.

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