Tyler Cowan - Vancouver is one of the best places for cutting edge cuisine

According to Tyler, the reason Vancouver is cutting edge is that we have competition, experimentation and pride and I can't disagree with that. We certainly all three of these things in the Japanese, Chinese, and South Asian community (amongst others) here in Vancouver!

Read the whole thing to get his full argument.From Is Globalization Changing How We Eat? via a blog post of the same name:

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If you want cutting edge cuisine, a lot of the best places to go are actually in the Anglo-American world. Go to London and get nouvelle fusion. Go to New Zealand and eat in the bistro’s. Go to Sydney or Melbourne in Australia. Go to Canada. I love the food in Canada. I’m going to Canada next week, and being an obsessive as I am, I’m looking forward to it just for the food. These places, the up and coming, what is it that they all have in common? Well, going back to the basic theory, they have competition, they have experimentation, and they don’t take anything for granted. They don’t think of themselves as sitting on top of the market. And they are also beginning to have this element of pride, which I think for a long time, arguably, was lacking in Anglo-American food. But the fact that we are all here is a sign that the English speaking cultures are beginning to take a lot more pride in their food. I have a saying, and it goes, “all cuisine is ethnic cuisine.” In the introduction it was noted that my specialty is ethnic food. This is true, but I also have the sneaky view that all food is ethnic food. I have another view. All food is fusion cuisine, you just may not know it yet. But everything is a mix, everything is a blend. So right now we are seeing the culinary world being turned upside down. Countries that have not been leaders, are innovating. If you go to Vancouver and eat, go to Toronto and eat, go to Wellington, New Zealand and eat you will get fantastic meals for really very affordable prices, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty dollars, you will have a meal to remember for a long time. And it is because of this competitive element.

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