Cuisine and Language 1: Inventories
OK, now let’s begin on ten of the things that food historians might learn from historical linguistics. Linguists estimate that there are somewhere between three thousand and ten thousand living…
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The theme of the 2009 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery was Food and Language. I gave a paper on a topic I had been mulling over for some time,…
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