I've been watching this Mexican abuela's cooking show on youtube, and I realized a while ago that lots of the stuff she cooks isn't all that different from the dishes that my midwestern grandma makes, just with more chilis. I don't know if her cooking is "authentic," but it looks tasty, and the few recipes I've tried myself were damn good comfort food. Not haute cuisine by any stretch, just what ordinary people make to feed their families.

"Authentic" cuisine is like the "good old days" that conservatives imagine: it probably never existed in a "pure" form.