The Omnivorous Fish

Can you talk more about this?

“Since it is often, especially in New York, so expensive to gather the talent and products necessary for sublime cooking, from a business perspective it just makes sense to add white tablecloths and silver flatware and charge more.”

because I think that this has more to do with the “French Mafia” in NYC and that french food is held in such high regard in America (deserved or not, no matter.)

Restaurants espousing the fine eating traditions from other cultures, like Latin American or Chinese, for example, have a much harder time convincing diners that their establishment deserves the same recognition and ecoutrements of “fine dining.”

Simply once could call this racism or western imperialism or “otherism” but I think it’s more complicated than that…