But we should not look just to ethnic food, narrowly defined, to see the diversity of trade.
Sunae believes an increased interest in ethnic food could lead to an increased awareness of other cultures.
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Ask a local for a good restaurant in Amsterdam and you will usually be pointed to some variant of ethnic food not native to the country.
The team behind Dinner Lab scouts the city for chefs and sous chefs who specialize in ethnic food, then sets up dinner parties in remote locations to create an experience that feels more like a vacation than a pop up.
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She used the opportunity to plug her Gucci getup and an upcoming cookbook, tentatively titled Let's Dine. (The book will feature a mishmash of ethnic genres, from Spanish to soul food--no milkshakes).
Anti-American Third World national, religious and ethnic groups are at the top of the victim food chain.
All food is fusion cuisine, and all dining is ethnic dining.
"Culturally, food means something very different to us than it does to other ethnic cultural groups, " said Smikle.
They say the prospect of free food "pulled" camp residents out of southern Bhutan, where most ethnic Nepalese live.
Home to many of China's 56 ethnic minorities, the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan is known for its diversity in food, dress, language and geography.
Many poor ethnic Nepalese from the region were encouraged to come to the camps to avail of free food, housing, education, healthcare and other facilities.
Riffel cooks simple, fresh South African food, using local ingredients prepared in a style strongly influenced by his Cape Malay background. (The Cape Malay community comprises ethnic Malays who began to emigrate to Cape Town more than 200 years ago.) "The food Reuben cooks is the food I knew growing up in the region, " says Ntezo.
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We also use food as a way of establishing who is friend and who is foe, and as a mode of ethnic distinction.
Airline food has improved remarkably in recent years with some airlines going as far to hire celebrity chefs to create ethnic or fusion cuisine to serve their business and first class passengers.
At least 1, 000 ethnic Albanians civilians are still living in the northern villages where rebels have dug in, many of them short of food and water, Defence Ministry spokesman Gjorgji Trendafilov said.
However, the global financial crisis and various political, ethnic and religious disputes have forced Najib and his ruling coalition to scale back those efforts along with plans to reduce food and fuel subsidies.
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