I invited my American friends for a traditional meal from my culture and they kept comparing it to restaurants and asking if I could make it less authentic next time and I don't know how to respond.
More people experience this than they realize.
Requests to modify cultural authenticity for comfort reveal how sharing heritage can become a process of dilution and compromise.
“Where Are You with Dietary traditions across cultures?”
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