Everyone can say their product is authentic, but how many people have the capacity to create something worthy of such an adjective? This is controversial because TexMex cuisine is truly authentic; however, when a restaurant is advertising authentic Mexican food and all you find there is TexMex food, then we have a problem! For example, my brother-in-law recently requested I made a lasagna before he left town. I wanted to please him and at the same time make something different. Since he asked for a meaty lasagna, I decided to make a BBQ lasagna. I had never made nor heard of such a thing, but that did not stop me. I purchased all the ingredients for the basic lasagna and for BBQ boneless ribs. I combined both methods and... presto!
Had I just managed to make an authentic product? This is where some people disagree. Either I used two authentic dishes and made a hybrid dish or I used two authentic dishes, combined them and made an authentic third dish. But if so, any alteration of an authentic product will result in another authentic product and authenticity will never cease to exist. On the other hand, if I make a hybrid dish, then BBQ lasagna is authentic in itself, and it cannot be labelled either as an authentic Italian dish nor an authentic BBQ dish; rather, it is authentic on its own. Stay curious my friends.
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