Eat Your Words. Paul Convery

soft Franco-Swiss cow’s milk cheeses

      veal * calf meat

      veggieburger * a surrogate burger made from vegetable protein instead of ham

      vendace * the UK’s rarest freshwater fish, edible though classified as “endangered”

      verivorst * Estonian “black pudding,” a traditional Christmas pig’s blood sausage

      volute * an edible deep-water sea snail

      wahoo * a large gourmet relative of the mackerel

      walleye * a North American freshwater pike, valued as a food fish

      wallfish * a British edible snail

      weisswurst * traditional mildly spiced Bavarian veal sausage

      Wensleydale * a flaky Yorkshire white cheese now in widespread production

      wesson * a beast’s windpipe or gullet considered as a culinary resource