"Don't Sound Like a Tool" Food Pronunciation Guides

If you've ever gotten blank stares when trying to order Hu tieu Nam Vang in a Vietnamese restaurant, you'll find SF Weekly's "Don't Sound Like a Tool" series helpful in your quest to get fed. (Today: The cooking equipment edition.) SFoodie blogger Jonathan Kauffman's audio pronunciation guides address "sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus." (Make sure to turn up your headphones, though; the subtleties between Crottin and Comte are kind of hard to hear.) My favorite is the classic Filipino dishes post. I'm fine with French, but stick me with a pancit palabok and I'm, well, stuck. Now you (and I) won't sound like tools anymore.
--Julia Bainbridge

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