wisegeek.com says
Fusion cuisine blends the culinary traditions of two or more nations to create innovative and sometimes quite interesting dishes. It tends to be more common in culturally diverse and metropolitan areas, where there is a wider audience for such food.
I can tell you two things about GrammaNora's version of fusion cuisine(then and now): it definitely blends something, and there probably isn't an audience in any metropolitan area (culturally diverse or not) for this food. The dinner table wasn't really ever an accepting audience, anyway.
The problem with the "blending" was usually that it was "of anything in the refrigerator." For those of you thinking that this was a busy mom with no time to get to the grocery store - a melding of leftovers is a trick for lots of moms -- you have never seen GrammaNora read a cookbook. Not consult . . . read.
She analyzes them. She looks at how they enhance her knowledge so that she can use them to do something with the knowledge she already has. As an example: "Ah yes, cacciatori. I know the taste of cacciatori, and I know the flavor of pasta, which is the recommended bed for the cacciatori. Those are two delicious flavors. I see here that chicken cacciatori is the commonest form of cacciatori, but what about this. Instead of chicken, what about SALMON?!"
It's intelligent. It's inspired. It's usually NOT delicious.
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