Patrick Zheng - Week 2

I was thinking about the idea of mixing cultures in food while eating takeout Indian food on Sunday. People have often talked about food from different cultures being “Americanized” in America, and it usually has a negative connotation. But Chipotle is "Americanized" Mexican food and fortune cookies aren’t exactly authentic Chinese food, but I still like them. It's always good to preserve authentic foods from different cultures, but what if we saw foods that have been assimilated into American culture as a unique style of food that was inspired from different cultures rather than just "Americanized", just like how American pizza and pasta evolved from Italian pasta to become its own thing?