The Allusionist

It’s Food Season at the Allusionist. Last episode we learned all about compiling recipes, turning food into words. This time, we meet someone who turns words into food - no, she doesn’t make Alphabetti Spaghetti. When Kate Young of the Little Library Cafe spots a foodstuff or a feast in a novel, she finds ways to cook it in reality, whether it’s delicious (Babette’s Feast), evil (Edmund’s Turkish delight in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) or poisonous (the crab and avocado in The Bell Jar). Find out more at . The Allusionist's online home is . The Allusionist live show is coming to London in September. For all event listings, visit . The Allusionist is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a collective of the finest podcasts on the interwaves. Find them at radiotopia.fm. Also! I’m making a NEW PODCAST! Veronica Mars Investigations, wherein Jenny Owen Youngs (of Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast) and I investigate every episode of Veronica Mars from the beginning. Find Veronica Mars Investigations in your podcast-getting app of choice, and at VMIpod on the social medias and .com. In August 2019, the Allusionist is sponsored by: •  for a free trial, and use the code ALLUSION to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. •  and get 20% off your first purchase. •  to find out more, and text **ALLUSIONIST **to 484848 to try it for free. • and see how much you could be saving. Discounts not available in all states and situations.

When recipe writing is done well, the skill and effort involved might not be evident. But explaining the different steps clearly so that people of varying culinary abilities and equipment can cook it, and indeed want to make it, and translating flavour and physical actions and sensory experiences into words - all that takes work. Recipe writers MiMi Aye and Felicity Cloake and cookbook editor Rachel Greenhaus consider the verbal ingredients of a well-written recipe. Find out more at . The Allusionist's online home is . The Allusionist live show is coming to London in September. For all event listings, visit . The Allusionist is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a collective of the finest podcasts on the interwaves. Find them at radiotopia.fm. In August 2019, the Allusionist is sponsored by: •  for a free trial, and use the code ALLUSION to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. •  and get 20% off your first purchase. •  to find out more, and text **ALLUSIONIST **to 484848 to try it for free. • and see how much you could be saving. Discounts not available in all states and situations.

I don’t know exactly when or where, but at some point in the past few years, I stopped putting punctuation at the end of sentences. Why? The internet made me do it! Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, cohost of Lingthusiasm podcast and the author of the new book Because Internet, explains how the internet changes the rules of language. Find out more at . The Allusionist's online home is . The Allusionist is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a collective of the finest podcasts on the interwaves. And it’s our annual survey season! Could you do me a big ole favour and spend a few minutes filling in the Survlusionist at ? I will, of course, be using your opinions and information for nothing but the most nefarious purposes (like, er, trying to make the show better for you). In July 2019, the Allusionist is sponsored by: •  for a free trial, and use the code ALLUSION to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. •  and get 20% off your first purchase. • and see how much you could be saving. Discounts not available in all states and situations. • .

Oysters, fragrances, canoeing, space stations, God, hats, and of course people - the word ‘bisexual’ has described a great deal of different things, with different meanings, in its fairly short existence. And that whole time, it has had a pretty bumpy ride. Mark Wilkinson studied 70 years of Times newspapers to trace how the British mainstream press used the term. Find out more at . The Allusionist's online home is . The Allusionist is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a collective of the finest podcasts on the interwaves. Find them all at . In June 2019, the Allusionist is sponsored by: •  for a free trial, and use the code ALLUSION to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. •  and get 20% off your first purchase. •  and on the Babbel app. •   and see how much you could be saving. Discounts not available in all states and situations.

To celebrate Pride Month, I’m playing two of the Allusionist episodes that have stuck with me the most during the show’s existence. The first is Joins. You listeners talk about your particular experiences in your trans bodies, dealing with the available vocabulary for sex and the associated body parts. (Content note: the episode contains language pertaining to sex and the associated body parts.) Second is Pride: the story of how that word was chosen in 1970 for LGBTQ Pride events. Find out more at . The Allusionist's online home is . The Allusionist is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a collective of the finest podcasts on the interwaves. Find them all at . In June 2019, the Allusionist is sponsored by: •  for a free trial, and use the code ALLUSION to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. •  and get 20% off your first purchase. •  and on the Babbel app. •   and see how much you could be saving. Discounts not available in all states and situations.