Dan Jurafsky, a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, is an exponent of a new discipline known as computational gastronomy. Using computer applications, he mines the big data available on the Internet to extract information about food, recipes, and people’s eating habits. In one part of his book, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu, Jurafsky describes the results of an analysis of a million online restaurant reviews, including those related to desserts.
