In the Middle Ages, women stopped eating strawberries while they were pregnant because they feared that the berry would cause...

When beer is gulped from a stein, what the drinker holds in his hand is, from an etymological point of...

Although tigers may not seem to have anything in common with steaks, they do: tigers and steaks derive their names...

The squash that means edible gourd is a completely different word than the squash that means painful racquet sport. Squash,...

The term square meal, denoting a satisfying, hearty meal, dates back to at least the late nineteenth century and probably...

The sparkling wine called spumante takes its name from the Italian spuma, meaning foam, as does the ice-cream dessert known...

Although you might expect spotted dick—a kind of suet pudding—to have been given its name by a man prone to...

The term spoil pudding refers not to a pudding, but to a person, or rather a parson, one whose sermons...

The spinach plant is native to Persia, but because it was introduced to most of Europe from Spain (where it...

Spikenard (also known as Indian Root, Life-of-Man, and American Spikenard. Spikenard is a bitter extract obtained from the plant of...