I like authentic Italian food. Otherwise, I like ethnic food that is inspired by authentic recipes but uses American-quality ingredients.
The best Mexican food I’ve had came from a Mexican family restaurant where the parents experimented and improved their recipes once they got here. Nice family, great cooks, hard working, and real Americans - they came legally back when most of us believed in the rule of law.
>>I like authentic Italian food.
Define please.
Would that be authentic Italian food as defined in the U.S., which is mostly authentic Italian food from southern Italy and Sicily 70 years ago, from the WWII era, and locked in time?
Or would that be true modern Italian food, which is very different, as I found when I visited several years ago?
BTW, I now almost invariably laugh at seeing “Tuscan” as an adjective on a restaurant menu here in the U.S., as it almost always is something I never saw on a restaurant menu in Tuscany.