In the Eating Out, Eating American chapter of Gastropolis, we are introduced to the sociocultural activity of eating out at a restaurant. The author, Mitchell Davis, states that “Like America, New York and its cuisine are modern and multicultural”. Going by this statement, what exactly would an “authentic” American restaurant have? For example when we think of an authentic Italian restaurant one may automatically just think of Fettucine Alfredo or Lasagna. Would the restaurant menu only have the “utterly authentic re-creations of foods from around the world” that the author introduces on page 299?