Taste Matters
Meals & Memories
What is authentic when it comes to taste? Though an impossible topic to wrap your mind around in 30 minutes, author and NYU Associate Professor of Food Studies, Krishnendu Ray, discusses taste, authenticity and culture through the lens of immigrant cuisine and restaurants on a special episode of "Taste Matters" with Mitchell Davis. Tune in and get an introduction to some of the themes Krishnendu has explored in his career such as vernacular cosmopolitanism and the idea of food as fashion. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"American food cultures are so inflected through immigrant prisms." [08:00]
"Indian restaurants in Manhattan have always been outward directed because there hasn't been a large Indian population until recently." [23:00]
--Krishnendu Ray on Taste Matters