Cuisine and Language 7. Loan Words, Loan Ingredients
Linguists use the term loan words for terms borrowed from another language. Would this help clarify the discussion of what are popularly called “fusion cuisines?” The more I think about…
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Rolling right along with the series on what culinary historians might learn from linguists, see the background at the end of this post. Languages die out. The world is littered…
Read moreCuisine and Language 5. Expanding and Contracting
Linguists have analyzed when and how languages expand. Only rarely is it by the natural growth of the original group that speaks the language (the Pacific Island case). More often…
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