Feature and Follow: Looking Up Strange Words and Terminology

Q: What is the BIGGEST word you’ve seen used in a book lately – that made you stop and look it up? Might as well leave the definition & book too.

A: This is a great question. :) I'm doing research for an article I'm writing and right now I'm combing through old cookbooks. A term came up that I couldn't identify. I'm pretty 'offal' literate (variety meats like kidneys, liver, and the like) but I didn't know what pork melts were. I actually had to look it up. For those that don't know or who want to know - pork melts are the pork spleen, and yes, some people eat that part of the animal. For the life of me I can't remember the book, only that I wrote it down, but it came from one published in the early 20th century.


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