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Cuisine & Language 2. Mutual unintelligibility means different cuisines

By Rachel Laudan November 16, 2010 Food History, Mexican Food 7 Comments

Languages, just like cuisines, come in infinite gradations, each individual speaking or eating his own variant.  So how do linguists decide when two languages really are different? One way of…

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