People’s culinary horizons are wider than ever, with international travel broadening palates and ethnically diverse communities helping new cuisines find a foothold in foreign lands. But should it matter if an American chef sets up a Vietnamese eatery? Would the food be any less ‘authentic’?
Dr. Signe Rousseau is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Food Media: Celebrity Chefs and the Politics of Everyday Interference and Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet. She is also co-chair of Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies (University of California Press).