Describe the dimensions of food authenticity, including geographic specificity, simplicity, personal connection, history & tradition, and ethnic connection.

This week’s discussion has 6 parts:1. Describe the dimensions of food authenticity, including geographic specificity, simplicity, personal connection, history & tradition, and ethnic connection.2. Why is it important to a foodie that a food be authentic?What does a valuation of authenticity in food do for a person’s identity?How does a concern with authenticity in food connect you to its culture?3. Do you require any foods that you (semi-)regularly consume to be “authentic?”Why? What does that do for your experience of the food?Does it do anything for your identity?4. Have a foodie experience. It could be one of the below, or you could propose something else to me.Have dinner at a reputed foodie restaurant.Shop at a foodie source (farmer’s market, ethnic grocery store, or some other option. I bet you could find some online. Start with Yelp.)5. Finish your discussion post with a paragraph describing your foodie experience, including an explanation of what made that experience “foodie.”