Thought of the Day:
Stop cuisine gate-keeping. Stop saying, "that's not true Italian just because its not the way my great-grandmother made it" or "you can't call it authentic by using shortcuts during cooking. I'm sorry but there is no such thing as authentic cuisine. Throughout human history, food and regional cuisine has always been influenced by outside cultures and foreign methods and even industrial ones. When the potato chip was first made, it wasn't exactly like the current potato chips we currently consume worldwide, so why isn't anyone arguing on its authenticity?
Cuisine is in a constant state of modification and evolution as are the people who prepare it. Chances are your great-grandmother probably tweaked the family recipes same as her mother and her mother before her. And also remember much of our cuisine wouldn't even exist without the Native American crops like potatoes and tomatoes. So much of our current cuisine didn't start until those crops were introduced through worldwide trade.
So please just stop with the whole "it's not authentic" bit. It's just not true. Never was.
