foodoir
1foodoir — (FOO.dwar) n. A memoir that includes recipes or that is focused on food, meals, or cooking. [Blend of food and memoir.] Example Citations: Done well, memoirs about love and food go together like steak and martinis. Meals are a perfect application …
2manufactroversy — n. A contrived or non existent controversy, manufactured by political ideologues or interest groups who use deception and specious arguments to make their case. Example Citations: During a question and answer session after a talk I recently gave …
3Books and Magazines — backstory belligerati bibliotherapy blog book blurb whore bonkbuster bookling carnography …
4Food and Drink — 100 foot diet alcopop allergy bullying antigriddle ape diet apple tourist auto eating beer miler …
5autopathography — (aw.toh.PATH.aw.gruh.fee; TH as in thin) n. An autobiography that is inspired by or that focuses on a disease or disorder that afflicts the author. (A blend of autobiography and pathology.) Example Citation: Clad in head to toe black, Rochelle… …
6gastroporn — n. The suggestive pictures and prose used to describe recipes in upscale cookbooks or menu items in fancy restaurants. Adjectives used include succulent, mouth watering, tantalizing, tender, juicy, and melt in your mouth. Example Citations: With… …
7me-moir — (MEE mwar) n. A memoir that is exceptionally self centered. Example Citation: She became the poster girl for all the evils of the book genre my friend Jane calls me moirs (as in, Dad was a drunk; Mom was a drunk; Dad was my lover; Dad was my mom) …
8momoir — n. A memoir about motherhood. [Mom + memoir.] momoirist n. Example Citations: In May, she came out with Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, a new bestselling book from Doubleday that… …
9shtick lit — n. A writing genre in which the author undertakes an odd or stuntlike project with the intention of writing about the experience. Also: schtick lit, shtik lit. Example Citations: Now, in his third book, he spends two years eating, exercising and… …
10tell-some — (tel SUM) adj. Revealing some but not all information that is considered private, secret, or sensitive. n. Example Citations: Just when the nation s political conversation threatened to become oversaturated with the mysterious absence of weapons… …
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