Understanding World Food: Families or Aesthetics
How do we understand the geography of contemporary food? How do we classify food groups or cuisines? That’s the subject of my recent postings on parallels between languages and foods. …
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3. Organize Cuisines into Families and sub-Families Linguists group languages into families and subfamilies. Is it possible to do the same with cuisines? What would those families and subfamilies be?…
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Just a few days ago I ran into yet one more reference to 2000 restaurants in Paris soon after the Revolution. What’s the evidence for this? Rebecca Spang in the…
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