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What exactly qualifies a particular food as is ethnic food?

If it's English food. Can that be ethnic or what if it's Russian, Latvian or Greek? Is Soul-Food ethnic food? Is there a real definition or this description just made up willy nilly on the spot?



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What exactly qualifies a particular food as is ethnic food?

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Ethnic Food
by: Anonymous

For a food to called "ethnic" it must be any food, dish, drink etc which is consumed by people living in that country as a minority ethnic group. I don't know if you are in USA or UK, but I give examples from Europe.

In UK ethnic food is: Chinese mushrooms, bacalau or salt fish (a dried cod used in Portugal, Italy, Spain Jamaica), and I could carry on with a very long list. Also for instance Jewish Kosher food can be classified as ethnic, just because is normally used by Jews who stick to the Kosher diet. This food is in UK because there are people using it, so somebody import it and can be found in the shops, but not everywhere... because it is still an ethnic food.

Nowadays it is very difficult to say what is ethnic and what is common food. Good example: Indian curry. is not certainly English, of course not, but because the presence of Indian culture being so embedded in the English culture in the last 300 years or so (not sure how long, don't quote me on that) curry as become a national English food, not an ethnic food anymore.

Do not confuse "ethnic" with "exotic" food which is food, normally fruit and veg, coming from abroad. Here again things change: I can remember when a kiwi, in Italy 30 years ago used to be an exotic fruit. Now, kiwi are normally grown locally, so no longer exotic.

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