A Home-Catering Menu from Bangkok: An Analysis—Part Two

This may help you get better meals at Thai restaurants

[For those who missed it, here’s Part One.]

In linguistics, there have long been debates over prescriptivism and descriptivism. And with food and language being almost identical in how they form, grow, and change, I often find myself walking nervously between the two territories when I write about food. I’m opinionated, but I don’t enjoy telling people w…