@gfron1 I understand your point of view too! I meant no offense at all, I hope you didn't take it that way. I am (unfortunately) not in the industry and really don't have a sense of these kinds of hurdles people like you have to deal with. I do not know how one would acknowledge the sometimes difficult history of a dish or cuisine, or how far one has to go to do as much. But I do think that if your food is delicious, it has achieved it's main goal, regardless of where it came from. Not saying to ignore history, or forget about the origins and people involved in a cuisine, but if a dish tastes fantastic I feel like that's where ones' responsibility to it ends. I know this is not the reality of things today, but how sad if we forget about why we cook and eat because we are constantly embroiled in the politics of it all.
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@gfron1 I understand your point of view too! I meant no offense at all, I hope you didn't take it that way. I am (unfortunately) not in the industry and really don't have a sense of these kinds of hurdles people like you have to deal with. I do not know how one would acknowledge the sometimes difficult history of a dish or cuisine, or how far one has to go to do as much. But I do think that if your food is delicious, it has achieved it's main goal, regardless of where it came from. Not saying to ignore history, or forget about the origins and people involved in a cuisine, but if it a dish tastes fantastic I feel like that's where ones' responsibility to it ends. I know this is not the reality of things today, but how sad if we forget about why we cook and eat because we are constantly embroiled in the politics of it all.
