Tweak the menu if you must, but tragedy awaits

19 October 2016 - 10:36
By Andrea Burgener

FADS: MAD, BAD, SAD: Changing, borrowing, tweaking the "classics", and adopting food fashions from elsewhere is what the history of gastronomy is all about. Combinations, cooking methods or philosophies which seem natural and right today were novelties at another stage. There's nothing wrong with borrowing from somewhere else or tweaking what came before, but how it's done is what counts.

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