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>It would take 30-50 years of intense effort I think your stereotype of American food represents the period prior to the 1970s. Or, in other words, more than 5

>It would take 30-50 years of intense effort I think your stereotype of American food represents the period prior to the 1970s. Or, in other words, more than 50 years ago. "Madhur Jaffrey CBE (née Bahadur; born 13 August 1933) is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhur_Jaffrey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhur_Jaffrey

rdtwo 5y ago
You ever been outside a major city or grocery store in a worse party of town? They don’t really carry many fruits vegetables mostly pre processed foods. So yeah affluent neighborhoods in Major cities have had a food Revolution but not so much elsewhere. Also it’s still crazy hard to find passable vegetarian food when you go out so clearly it’s not very integrated into mainstream cuisine
- perl4ever 5y ago
  I've never really lived in a major city and I do 90% of my grocery shopping at a supermarket in the middle of a smaller one. The greater metro area of the three smaller cities here combined is at best like a million people. The area where I live has been compared to Appalachia. The grocery store that my family shopped at when I was growing up is in the "worse part of town", at least these days. An Indian restaurant that was a local fixture for over 30 years opened in the early 1980s. These days there are multiple specialty grocery stores, as well as many more Indian and Chinese (not just American style) restaurants, some of which have "fusion" and regional dishes, not just the same old. When I go to a supermarket in a wealthy area up north, things look new but cardboardy like I remember from northern VA, but no, I don't see a big difference in the produce, despite what a stock cliche it is. Quite possibly more "processed foods" at that. What they do have is expensive cheesecakes made by nuns. There are co-op, vegan, etc. grocery stores and restaurants. I could get a whole durian without going out to the suburbs even. Again, it's not, say, Seattle, but it's not 1980 anymore either.

rdtwo 5y ago

You ever been outside a major city or grocery store in a worse party of town? They don’t really carry many fruits vegetables mostly pre processed foods. So yeah affluent neighborhoods in Major cities have had a food Revolution but not so much elsewhere. Also it’s still crazy hard to find passable vegetarian food when you go out so clearly it’s not very integrated into mainstream cuisine

perl4ever 5y ago
I've never really lived in a major city and I do 90% of my grocery shopping at a supermarket in the middle of a smaller one. The greater metro area of the three smaller cities here combined is at best like a million people. The area where I live has been compared to Appalachia. The grocery store that my family shopped at when I was growing up is in the "worse part of town", at least these days. An Indian restaurant that was a local fixture for over 30 years opened in the early 1980s. These days there are multiple specialty grocery stores, as well as many more Indian and Chinese (not just American style) restaurants, some of which have "fusion" and regional dishes, not just the same old. When I go to a supermarket in a wealthy area up north, things look new but cardboardy like I remember from northern VA, but no, I don't see a big difference in the produce, despite what a stock cliche it is. Quite possibly more "processed foods" at that. What they do have is expensive cheesecakes made by nuns. There are co-op, vegan, etc. grocery stores and restaurants. I could get a whole durian without going out to the suburbs even. Again, it's not, say, Seattle, but it's not 1980 anymore either.