Also in deference to David, there was no mention of margarine, even though all DeVoto wanted to do was warn penny-pinching Americans against using it. “I know it’s absurd, but it’s a word I try to avoid putting on paper at all costs — almost as if one ought to write it M_,” David pleaded.

Importing Italian Cuisine - NYTimes.com

The labored birth of food appreciation that degenerated into today’s despicable food snobbery. On editing Elizabeth David’s Italian Cooking for an American audience of the 1950s. A must read if you think you’re a food snob or a word snob.

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