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Cuisine as a Language  Human Language Animal Language Duality of Patterning Distinctive sounds, called Other animals do not phonemes, are arbitrary communicate by and have no meaning....

Cuisine as a Language  Human Language Animal Language Duality of Patterning Distinctive sounds, called Other animals do not phonemes, are arbitrary communicate by and have no meaning. arranging arbitrary But humans can string sounds, which limits the these sounds in an number of messages they infinite number of ways can create. to create meaning via words and sentences. Creativity New words can be Animals have to evolve in invented easily. order for their signs to change. Displacement Humans can talk about Animal communication is remote, abstract, or context driven—they imaginary things that react to stimuli, or aren't happening in their indexes. immediate environments.  Human Language Animal Language Interchangeability Any gender of human can Certain animal use the same languages communications in the animal world can only be used by one gender of that animal. Cultural Transmission Humans acquire language The way that animals culturally—words must communicate are be learned. biological, or inborn. Arbitrariness Human language is Animal communication is symbolic, using a set not symbolic, so it can number of sounds not preserve ideas of the (phonemes) and past. characters (alphabet), which allows ideas to be recorded and preserved.  Human Language Animal Language Biology On a purely biological Other animals have level, the human voice different biological box and tongue are very structures, which impact unique, and are required the way they make to make the sounds we sounds. recognize as language. Ambiguity A word, or sign, can have Every sign has only one several meanings. meaning. Variety Human language can Animals only have a arrange words into an limited number of infinite number of ideas, combinations they can sometimes referred to as use to communicate. discrete infinity. Source: Wikipedia ‘An introduction to molecular linguistics,’ Patricia Bralley, Bioscience 46(2), 1996.  Cooking as a language A grammar framework of language suggests that words, the basic building blocks of language, are combined following certain rules to yield sentences. The origin of this idea goes back to Panini, a fifth-century BC Sanskrit grammarian. Such grammar is a combinatorial system in which a small inventory of concepts can be assembled by rules into an immense set of distinct sentences. Perhaps basic building blocks of cooking, similar to words and rules of a language, are ‘culinary concepts’ that are put together to create ‘culinary sentences.’  Cubits—the basic building blocks of cooking Perhaps basic building blocks of cooking, similar to words and rules of a language, are ‘culinary concepts’ that are put together to create ‘culinary sentences.’ Subsequently, these ‘sentences’ coalesce to form richer structures— recipes. Let’s name these ‘culinary concepts’ as ‘cubits’ (culinary bits)—the culinary equivalent of an information-theoretic bit. Analogous to words that relate to parts of speech, cubits are parts of cooking: ingredient name (I), quantity-and-unit (Q), form (F), processing action (P), description of processing action (T), and utensil (U). While some of these are comparable to their linguistic counterparts (noun, determiner, adjective, verb), the others are not.  The first rule generates ‘ingredient phrases’ such as those listed in a recipe’s ‘ingredients’ section. An ingredient phrase (IP) may be composed of the cubits quantity- and-unit (Q), form (F), and the name of the ingredient (I).  The second rule refers to the ‘processing actions (P)’ that produce chemical transformations in ingredients (I), profoundly changing flavor profiles. A processing phrase (PP) may consist of a process (P) cubit followed by its direct object(s), one or many ingredient phrases.  Finally, the third rule yields gastronomically meaningful ‘sentences.’ A sentence in ‘recipe instructions’ may be composed of a processing phrase (PP) and a utensil (U) cubit. These rules, analogous to their linguistic parallels, are productive, abstract, and combinatorial. By assembling culinary concepts into phrases (according to the parts of cooking terms), this view of culinary structure gives an insight into the use and understanding of cooking. The proposed grammar materially simplifies cooking by introducing a ‘culinary phrase structure’ description. ‘Words and Rules,’ Steven Pinker,, 2015. The Power of Recursion Infinite material from finite media Mini-Project Discussions https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/cuisine-classification-challenge https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/what-indian-dish-is-that  Human Language Animal Language Duality of Patterning Distinctive sounds, called Other animals do not phonemes, are arbitrary communicate by and have no meaning. arranging arbitrary But humans can string sounds, which limits the these sounds in an number of messages they infinite number of ways can create. to create meaning via words and sentences. Creativity New words can be Animals have to evolve in invented easily. order for their signs to change. Displacement Humans can talk about Animal communication is remote, abstract, or context driven—they imaginary things that react to stimuli, or aren't happening in their indexes. immediate environments. Interchangeability Any gender of human can Certain animal use the same languages communications in the animal world can only be