Authenticity of the food
In last blog We talked about the authentic food and inauthentic food. So many people asked me what is the real meaning of authenticity hence lets clear the meaning first
" When a dish is made with ingredients indigenous to its place of origin and tailored to the pallettes of the residents of its place of origin. The caveat here is that the dish claims to be 'authentic'.
Lets take an example - As far as we know, tandoori chicken was probably invented in Peshawar as recently as the 1930s. It only became popular after Moti Mahal started serving it in Delhi in the 1950s.
Are these dishes inauthentic because my grandmother had never heard of them? Is tandoori chicken any less authentic because it is a restaurant dish that few of us will cook at home. Maybe yes because we are not using the original ingredients and neither we use the actual method of cooking. The closer it tastes to the food from the country of origin, the better.
Since, generally, Italian chefs will know and understand how to cook Italian food much better than non-Italians, their food is considered authentic. There are certain tastes in dishes that are often extremely difficult to replicate if you have never been to the country or learned under someone who has.
Now lets speak about inauthentic food - One example of an 'inauthentic' restaurant is a sushi restaurant that is owned by Chinese people or Korean people. That is often not considered 'authentic', since sushi is from Japan.
Can we differentiate between authentic and inauthentic now?
" When a dish is made with ingredients indigenous to its place of origin and tailored to the pallettes of the residents of its place of origin. The caveat here is that the dish claims to be 'authentic'.
Lets take an example - As far as we know, tandoori chicken was probably invented in Peshawar as recently as the 1930s. It only became popular after Moti Mahal started serving it in Delhi in the 1950s.
Are these dishes inauthentic because my grandmother had never heard of them? Is tandoori chicken any less authentic because it is a restaurant dish that few of us will cook at home. Maybe yes because we are not using the original ingredients and neither we use the actual method of cooking. The closer it tastes to the food from the country of origin, the better.
Since, generally, Italian chefs will know and understand how to cook Italian food much better than non-Italians, their food is considered authentic. There are certain tastes in dishes that are often extremely difficult to replicate if you have never been to the country or learned under someone who has.
Now lets speak about inauthentic food - One example of an 'inauthentic' restaurant is a sushi restaurant that is owned by Chinese people or Korean people. That is often not considered 'authentic', since sushi is from Japan.
Can we differentiate between authentic and inauthentic now?
Ummmm, Interesting. I have to check out your previous post immediately to get more clarity.
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DeleteI definitely can differentiate between authentic and inauthentic foods right now! Over here, cassava and maize foods are as authentic while wheat is not!
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DeleteSometimes it can be hard making the difference between these two types. I have to search for your previous post. You made me curious.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, being curious is good sometimes
DeleteGood to know. Basically, so long as the food is tasty, I'll eat it inauthentic or not.
ReplyDeleteYes, but hotels can't say we are serving authentic only in this case
DeleteI think a lot of foods that we eat have been changed over the years. As long as it tastes good, I dont care if it is authentic.
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DeleteInteresting, I never really thought much about authentic and inauthentic food. I will have to check out the other post now!
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear
DeleteThis is very interesting. It really deals with the idea of perspective and knowledge from a food lover's perspective.
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DeleteI think as long as it tastes good I'm fine with it.
ReplyDeleteBut yes a lot of changes have happened so you never know.
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DeleteOh, well. So now I am starting to think of any authentic dish from my country. There are actually a lot of inauthentic dishes served elsewhere that claimed to be authentic.
ReplyDeleteYess, that is the main topic and please let me know some dishesh
DeleteI think we can but I also think that it does not matter where you come from, if you are fascinating by a certain cuisine and worked very hard to make it and become an expert, then that's authentic, even though you are not coming from the country
ReplyDeleteDefinately
Deletehmm but im thinking even if the restaurant is owned by a different nationality but they have a chef trained to do authentic dishes, where does it fall?
ReplyDeleteIt falls when such restaurants start using authentic brand
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