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Jun. 7th, 2010 02:42 pmhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/05/31/eat-your-words-anthony-bourdain-on-being-wrong.aspx
Yeah, or with authenticity. There's enormous respect and a romanticized reverence for what's considered the "right" way—meaning, the classic way—and I think most chefs feel powerfully that one should know that before moving on. Like, "I've researched this, this is the way they were making it in 1700, goddamn it, and that's the way it should be made." Or: "This is the way they make laksa in Kuching and Borneo; that stuff I just had on Ninth Avenue is definitely not the same; ergo it's wrong." But, you know, what does "real" or "authentic" mean? The history of food is the history of migrating ingredients and occupation and foreign influences and accommodation.
A key point; I think the difference between the 'right' way and the 'wrong' way lies in the process; hurried, sloppy, impatient, slapdish, and cheap? That's the wrong way to do it. Cutting corners and being lazy, taking a cheap substitiute, doing things to speed things up to get it out the door faster without regard to quality; those are the 'wrong' ways.
Yeah, or with authenticity. There's enormous respect and a romanticized reverence for what's considered the "right" way—meaning, the classic way—and I think most chefs feel powerfully that one should know that before moving on. Like, "I've researched this, this is the way they were making it in 1700, goddamn it, and that's the way it should be made." Or: "This is the way they make laksa in Kuching and Borneo; that stuff I just had on Ninth Avenue is definitely not the same; ergo it's wrong." But, you know, what does "real" or "authentic" mean? The history of food is the history of migrating ingredients and occupation and foreign influences and accommodation.
A key point; I think the difference between the 'right' way and the 'wrong' way lies in the process; hurried, sloppy, impatient, slapdish, and cheap? That's the wrong way to do it. Cutting corners and being lazy, taking a cheap substitiute, doing things to speed things up to get it out the door faster without regard to quality; those are the 'wrong' ways.
