Tastes of the town: The best foods are crispy

We’ve all heard that Eskimos have 50 words for snow. In the late 19th century, anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas studied Inuit communities and observed that Eskimos had an abundance of words for the white stuff that is a novelty in Texas. The Japanese use a number of  words to denote crunchy and crispy foods. Japanese people often focus on texture and foods are divided into dishes that have…