{"id":277242,"date":"2026-02-10T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:40:11","slug":"rocket-or-arugula-how-a-salad-vegetable-mapped-the-italian-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277242\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Br\u00e9al\u2019s Law of Differentiation, named for the linguist <a href=\"https:\/\/dbcs.rutgers.edu\/all-scholars\/9343-breal-michel-jules-alfred\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Br\u00e9al<\/a>, languages detest absolute synonyms. If a word has two meanings, the language will intervene somehow. Indeed, today\u2019s Spanish speakers prefer to call the plant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/oruga\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">r\u00facula<\/a>. If you were to ask for an ensalada de oruga in Spain today, you\u2019d probably get odd looks and, maybe, a caterpillar salad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Br\u00e9al\u2019s Law of Differentiation, named for the linguist Michel Br\u00e9al, languages detest absolute synonyms. If a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-277242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}