a reasonably consistent vocabularly
a 'dish' is a way of presenting a 'recipe', which may be a component of a 'menu'. a 'cuisine' is a collation of 'ingredients', 'recipes', 'stories' etc+
there are various things we are interested in (according to #2)
- ingredients -> dishes -> meals -> cuisines
- methods
- presentation
- stories and conversations around things
- cuisines as wider, perhaps nebulous living categories