{"id":1181,"date":"2017-03-08T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2017-03-27T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:10:51","slug":"perceived-authenticity-a-look-into-the-role-of-mexican-cuisine-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/03\/08\/perceived-authenticity-a-look-into-the-role-of-mexican-cuisine-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceived Authenticity: a look into the role of Mexican cuisine in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1182\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1182\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1182\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/street5-300x202.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/street5-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/street5-768x516.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/street5-1024x688.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/street5-676x454.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/street5.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Courtesy of BevCooks.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being from Texas, I\u2019ve always been surrounded by Mexican food. \u00a0Having family which hail from Harlingen, a small town in the Rio Grande Valley about 20 miles from the border to Mexico, I had the privilege of being exposed to good, authentic Mexican food at an early age. \u00a0However, growing up in Dallas, I have also experienced many traditionally \u201cinauthentic\u201d Mexican dishes, mostly of the Tex Mex variety. \u00a0Both varieties of \u201cMexican\u201d food taste very good, but in our society, the \u201cinauthentic\u201d dishes are regarded as lesser. \u00a0Thus, I\u2019ve been researching how people perceive authenticity of Mexican cuisine in the United States, and have found an interesting trend. \u00a0It appears that, in this context, people generally care more about whether the food is authentic than how the food tastes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1cGWKpDk62ScI1L2C_0lcP9rVN_YHvmvCKQnCNBl_RTA\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being from Texas, I\u2019ve always been surrounded by Mexican food. \u00a0Having family which hail from Harlingen, a small town in the Rio Grande Valley about 20 miles from the border to Mexico, I had the privilege of being exposed to good, authentic Mexican food at an early age. \u00a0However, growing up in Dallas, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotated-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}