NPR All Things Considered: In A Global Age, A Whole New World Of Foreign Films by Bilal Qureshi

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Every year, the Oscar category for Best Foreign Language Film pits nations against each other, but this year's five nominees — winnowed down from 65 entries — aren't exactly born of the distinct national film traditions we've grown accustomed to.

Take this year's Oscar-nominated film, Incendies, by Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. It's about two siblings who journey across the world, to the sun-drenched valleys of the Middle East, to find where they came from. Shot in Canada and Jordan, Incendies is mostly in Arabic. Villeneuve says his film doesn't exactly follow in the tradition of Quebecois cinema. Read the full story here

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Fusion Cuisine:
Globalization You Can Taste

Fusion Foods, Fusion Recipes, and Fusion Relationships by Michael K. Miller, Takeaways
  • Fusion Cuisine originated in France in the seventh decade of the 20th Century.
  • Today, Fusion Cuisine is an accelerating outcome of globalization.
  • Today, Fusion Cuisine is reflected through global foods and global recipes and food preparation.
Fusion cuisine is an outcome of globalization in peoples, trade, finance, business, communications, and relationships. As major elements in the lives and living of the world's people meet, interact, mix, and combine, fusion cuisine reflects the meeting, interaction, mixing, and combination of global foods, global recipes, and global food preparation methods.International travel, both professional and personal, for business and for pleasure, has increased the rate, degree, and scope of exposure, appreciation, and adoption of global foods, global recipes, and global cuisines of dissimilar nations and divergent cultures.Fusion cuisine, fusion foods, and fusion recipes phenomena are integrative and creative in process and product. These fusion phenomena or phenomenons are neither synthesis, blending, nor synergy. Respective foods and food preparation methods maintain their distinctive and separate tastes, aromas, and characteristics. Through fusion cuisine, creative integration engendersamazing food, eating, and dining experiences.Additionally, just as fusion cuisine is the globalization of foods, food preparation methods, recipes, cooking, and presentationthrough creative integration of different cultures and peoples, so, too, is fusion cuisine an influential element in economic and social globalization as a world-shaping phenomenon.

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