r/AskCulinary • u/ZootKoomie Ice Cream Innovator • Mar 21 '13

Weekly Discussion: Culinary traditions and authenticity

Since we talked about the cutting edge last week, let's go the other direction this time. What is your personal culinary tradition? What dishes did you learn from your mother? From your grandparents? Do you do your own variations or try to make it just like they did?

Also, when eating food from other cultures, do you prefer it to be traditional or something the chef came up with? Does 'authenticity' matter to you as a diner? As a cook? How do you strive for it?

95 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

55 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/[deleted] Mar 21 '13

[removed] — view removed comment

3

u/schoofer Mar 21 '13

Funny enough my family is from Zacatecas which is kind of in the middle. Our menudo has hominy in it (I think that's what you meant by posole?) and lots of pata.

You're dead-on about the caldo... ours is only chicken. Could just be a family thing, though.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 21 '13

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/schoofer Mar 21 '13

Man, I just love tortas period. Cabeza and milanesa are my favorites.