Preliminary data was collected from the
Dictionary of Lanrza3Thai by Rungreungsri
(1991) and the Northern Thai Dictionary
by Khemmuk (1996). Several Northern Thailand cooking
books, Lanna indigenous recipes and
etymological studies were also included.
At first, 147 words concerning food
preparation were collected. Later, all of
them were tested in terms of their semantic
and syntactic properties prior to this
selection as typical Northern Thailand cooking terms.
Finally, 35 terms were derived and
adopted for analysis in the present study.