&gt; In an era when (white and co) americans devour all kinds of ethnic cuisines<p>I suspect this is the case in big cities, I don&#x27;t know how broadly it holds in America. I&#x27;ve been in San Francisco for 4 years, so I&#x27;ve tried or at least been made aware of tons of ethnic cuisine, but before that I had never tried sushi and had never even seen an Indian or Thai restaurant. Perhaps the rural Midwest is the last place these things spread to. All we really had were tons of Chinese and Mexican restaurants and a smattering of French, Italian, and Japanese places, all undoubtedly as unauthentic as they come.