I guess it’s the ingredients that come into a dish that make for the authenticity of the cuisine. I’ve known spaghetti that uses banana ketchup as sauce, with bits of cheap processed cheese and tiny slivers of hotdog floating in it. I have...

I am sure that food is still Italian, some people just have a flair for cooking and sensing the ingredients. It doesnt take a native to be the best chef of a particular cuisine (not that it won’t help) but just to simply understand the diverse...