3 The Culinary Triangle Claude Lévi-Strauss Lingus ae famed ot with concepts he “minum vocal” and unimum consonants” which fr systems of postions between phones of elementary 2 nature that every known or urkaow language suppes he: ‘hey aremact io the fst opponsns appears ne ed nguape an he at 'edappearin the spn peopl acted by et forms of apna. ‘Thetwo concepts aremoreoet noel tint since acon to guss fr ‘Te subsequent distinctions among vowel and among consonants elt fom the {pletion to thse dered areas of ach conta compact and ifs, open nd ‘Sloe este and rave ena, nal te langoges ofthe word, complex systems of oppastions among ‘phoneme do nethingbu labore malipe resins spe stm common {> them al the cont betwen consonant vowel which bythe working f= {lube opposition berwen compact and dif, sae and giv, prcs on the ‘neta what as been ae he vowel angle? ‘dom the ote andthe “consonant ingle ‘ pt two scm tha the methodologic pipe which init ch dsintions is anspoble to othe domains notably ht of cooking which thas never een ‘cle empha, with langage = tly sive form of nan ay ifthe so tsety without lngane, nr ere any whi doc et cok ‘ome manne at eat some os fond "We wl srt fom the bypotess ht thi activ supposes «tm which Ioctedscodingt ery dea moda in anton othe paar cles one wants to coser—within a trangulr semantic fell who the pins ‘Srrepond respectively tthe eatgrie of he rm the ook snd the ed 1 TeCuinay Tange » acer that in respect o cooking thera contutes the unmade he er tv oles ar strongly rhe, Dtin diferent decsons indeed, the cokes eulturaltasslormation of thera wheres the rte i tral tranoraton Undering our orignal Wang terest hence « double oppoution betwen thboatelulaboatel oa the one bd and carnation the oer. "No doubt hee notions const empty forms they teach us ating bout the ‘xoing of any specie soy sine aly craton a tll ue what each one free by “aw” “cooked” apd ote” and we an sppor tht it wil ot be the ‘efor al Tian cline has recently taht wo eat rut reve ha 4 tmatonl French cooking. thereby determining an elrgemen ofthe egy of {heave And we now rom ome nsdn tha flowed the Ald anding i Dat {hat American solders conc he ctegory of he ote in more extend fasion {han we since the or gen off by Norman sz dae sere othe the sal ‘copes and occasonally romped thes to dette ies, Consequently thecalinay rangle delimitsa semantic eld bo fom the oui, ‘This moreover raf the ings rangle a we sce here are no phonemes as (or kp.) genera, and there deal Pons mt be capes ch langog, by the parla phonemes vehowe dint nae ae et to thre for weich we fist gave a syblie represetatin: thar we have ot eocrte angle ised within the abtact al In any caine ating Spl cooked, but must be cooked in one thon or another Nor there soy tontition of pare rawness only eran foods cn ely be etn avid then ‘nly f they have been sled, wathe. ped orc even sone Reting too i oni allowed to take plc i ertin specie ways, ier spontaneous ot ‘etl Tat us now conse or hse snes whose ater ar lal wel known, the diferent modes of ooking, Thee ae ceri wo pencil mosey steel Innumeabesociets by myth ad te which empha th cont the ost ‘nd the boiled In what does diference const Ro fod dsl expored {othe ee th the Se fel an umedited sonancon, wheres ole food ' doubly nditd, by the water in ehh tiie an bythe rcp that Bole both water and od ‘On two ground, the, one can sy tht the road ion the ide of atc, he bode on he side of calare teal beats Boing eure the ie of ect, 2 alu abject smbotialy in a mocha clare 2 medion of thereto berween than andthe world and boling demands mdi (by wate) ofthe ‘loon beeen fod and ie which absent in son, ‘The nar of New Caledonia fel this contrat with pate vividness “Former hes M1 Bara, “ey ony ied ad ese they ony" the nates now sy. 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