Comments on: Asian Omniscience On Your Plate http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2008/11/03/asian-omniscience-on-your-plate/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Authentologist http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2008/11/03/asian-omniscience-on-your-plate/comment-page-1/#comment-3965 Authentologist Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:41:10 +0000 http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2008/11/03/asian-omniscience-on-your-plate/#comment-3965 Authenticity is indeed difficult to define-While we often consider our food fusions to be a bastardization of the authentic dishes of the past-in actuality, the recipes that we are developing here and now are the authentic dishes of today-I would have to say that there is no such thing as something not being authentic-as authenticity only can represent a dish that was made in a certain time and place-any other time frame that attempts to create a similar dish will automatically be changing the course of culinary history. Deep stuff... one could even loose sleep over it. Authenticity is indeed difficult to define-While we often consider our food fusions to be a bastardization of the authentic dishes of the past-in actuality, the recipes that we are developing here and now are the authentic dishes of today-I would have to say that there is no such thing as something not being authentic-as authenticity only can represent a dish that was made in a certain time and place-any other time frame that attempts to create a similar dish will automatically be changing the course of culinary history.

Deep stuff… one could even loose sleep over it.

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