World cuisines versus West African Cuisine in Balcatta

We have been embracing the tastes, ingredients, and textures of a wide range of cuisines from around the world. Foods from Asia, Central and South America, and North Africa have become so famous. But slowly, African cuisine is gaining its fair amount of recognition in the world too. Today there is the availability of Nigerian foods in Balcatta. 

The Problem with food Review Authenticity 

The way restaurant critics and food journalists write about African foods is time and again laden about Sub-Saharan Africa; reinforcing typecasting about the subcontinent and African cuisines to their readers. Although it seems inappropriate to mention war or famine in restaurant reviews, it is not rare for reviews of African restaurants to submit to these issues.

These cuisines may not have found much grip in the culinary majority is that the media often conflates African cuisines with ‘‘soul food’’ or African American cooking. 

The fondness of food journalists and restaurant reviewers to speak confidently about African cuisines is disturbing for many— that is, those who speak of it at all—bearing in mind that most of their information about the cuisines of the subcontinent seems to be through dining experiences in African restaurants stateside. There seems to be a real belief that the meals served in African restaurants are symbolic of the way that hundreds of thousands of people eat on the subcontinent. 

While most food critics and reviewers would agree that it would be incorrect to presume that culinary expertise could be gotten from eating Indian, Mexican, Ghanaian food in Balcatta or Chinese food in the USA, it has become tolerable for writers to position themselves as specialists on African cuisines just by dining in African restaurants. One could travel to the home nations of the cuisine and get the real way of eating it rather than sitting on your own. This makes a lot of difference. 

African restaurants, like other cultural restaurants in Australia, are unreliable sources for trying to study about cuisines. Many African restaurants serve fundamentally different foods from what natives on the subcontinent eat. Also, foods served in these restaurants may only signify the cuisine of a single ethnic group or a specific region of the country or might not even be cooked by a person who doesn’t know the cuisine. 

Conclusion

Of course, it also depends if the person can travel for authentic food or not. they may have the best Jollof rice in Balcatta too.