The mestizo writers cited in this paper write the words linked to food from the colonized culture in their ‘minor’ language, to reclaim its values as a challenge to the status quo. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘minor’ language notion and Derrida’s ‘relevant’ translation, this paper suggests that if translators want to propose an ethical translation of these novels, they should leave these food-linked words untranslated, (i.e. in the ‘minor’ language).