/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8086246
Maybe I wasn't perfectly clear in my point, I was saying that it's uncommon for chefs in Manhattan to do pure authentic food, but it is possible to find.

Some of the reasons I listed were that:
-1st generation cooks aren't as famous or well connected as their contemporaries
-risking your business on authentic food that the locals may or may not like is a big gamble financially due to the extreme rents in the city
-most chefs from other countries aren't even out to create the most authentic menu from their homeland, they tend to mix styles

Generally the "authentic" food that I'm introduced to here in the city is from an immigrant friend who knows a guy who knows a guy, and that fiend speaks the languange of whatever the food is supposed to be from. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's just ok, but they tell me it's the real deal, and I know that I probably wouldn't have been able to find this from some magazine or newspaper review or a food blog that I follow.