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What a weird article. Modern culinary arts are at their most inventive right now, with boundaries constantly being pushed, with the trickle down reaching more a

What a weird article. Modern culinary arts are at their most inventive right now, with boundaries constantly being pushed, with the trickle down reaching more and more places due to globalization, resulting in more and more people being able to have exciting dishes at affordable prices. At the same time, more and more attention is being paid to preserve authentic food, while elevating it to more haute cuisine levels. The author claims they're not trying to begrudge locals good food, but basically the entire article reads "I want to travel to places and have TRADITIONAL!!! cuisine, not this fancy bullshit!" There's never been a better time to be alive for foodies and even food tourists than now.

cbd1984 12y ago
> TRADITIONAL!!! cuisine Which is no more than a few decades old at most, a century at the outside. People live, people die, and new people do the "same" food differently; people move, new people come, and there's a new influence in both locations. A static view of tradition is a Victorian invention, a reaction to the increasing pace of industrialization, and nothing more than nostalgia. Mix that with the idiotic notion that the Medieval period was a stagnant "dark age" and you have the modern notion of "traditional" "organic" food which was the same for ever until Evil Modernity Literally GMO Monsatan moved in and made a Mordor out of our little Shire.
- coldtea 12y ago
  >A static view of tradition is a Victorian invention, a reaction to the increasing pace of industrialization You understand that those two notions are contradictory, right? If industrialization "increased the pace", then indeed "static tradition" was what existed before it, as food and other aspects of tradition changed with a much slower pace -- even if not totally static (which is a strawman anyway, no Victorian thought food at 20 A.D was exactly the same as food in 1700 A.D)

cbd1984 12y ago

> TRADITIONAL!!! cuisine Which is no more than a few decades old at most, a century at the outside. People live, people die, and new people do the "same" food differently; people move, new people come, and there's a new influence in both locations. A static view of tradition is a Victorian invention, a reaction to the increasing pace of industrialization, and nothing more than nostalgia. Mix that with the idiotic notion that the Medieval period was a stagnant "dark age" and you have the modern notion of "traditional" "organic" food which was the same for ever until Evil Modernity Literally GMO Monsatan moved in and made a Mordor out of our little Shire.

coldtea 12y ago
>A static view of tradition is a Victorian invention, a reaction to the increasing pace of industrialization You understand that those two notions are contradictory, right? If industrialization "increased the pace", then indeed "static tradition" was what existed before it, as food and other aspects of tradition changed with a much slower pace -- even if not totally static (which is a strawman anyway, no Victorian thought food at 20 A.D was exactly the same as food in 1700 A.D)