11 mars 2021
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Lisa Smith, « Of Kebabs and Lawsuits: A Case for Authenti‘city’ », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdau
By Sonakshi Srivastava Authenticity is a reflexive term, its nature is to be deceptive about its nature. -- Carl Dahlhaus There is an instance in Intizar Husain’s popular novel, Basti, where, while dining at the Shiraz, a restaurant in the newly created Pakistan, discussion ensues about the authenticity of the identity of the bread seller, Nuru. He boasts of being a ‘pure bred Ambala man’, an assertion that seems out of place to the people in the new land, prodding Karnaliya, a fellow diner...