Yeah, I find the concept of "authenticity" to just be overrated. Foods evolve and adapt. Cultures make contact, new ideas and people and spices/sauces/dishes enter and travel.
Like nothing wrong with classics and foods persisting, but food shouldn't stay stagnant.
Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in."- RIP, Leonard Cohen