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Her longer term projects included writing the book Food Festivals: Eating Your Way from Coast to Coast, co-authoring the book Holidays and Festivals Dictionary, and serving as an editor for a synonym dictionary entitled The Synonym Finder, published by Rodale.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
The project that would preoccupy the Grimms for the remainder of their lives was the Deutsches Wörterbuch—the German dictionary.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Around the time of Lubbock’s experiments with Van, a New York publisher produced a phonetic dictionary of some 600 cat sounds compiled by a Frenchman named Alphonse Leon Grimaldi.
—Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
The project that would preoccupy the Grimms for the remainder of their lives was the Deutsches Wörterbuch—the German dictionary.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Around the time of Lubbock’s experiments with Van, a New York publisher produced a phonetic dictionary of some 600 cat sounds compiled by a Frenchman named Alphonse Leon Grimaldi.
—Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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