A much loved public figure once mentioned that he had chosen to sponsor academic research into the cuisine of folks of his heritage.
In his opinion, said cuisine was just as refined, nutritious and generally worthy of consideration as the food of any other culture.
Migration across the world is nothing new to the human race. New communities emerge in locations far from their original homesteads.
It takes time for the migrants to feel fully at ease wherever they settle. Eventually they produce cultural practices that eventually become traditions and customs.
Some of those practices might come across as outlandish to the folks who were already in the settlement, but anything that isn’t illegal should be regarded as valid in the wider scheme of things.
