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Sweet City Roundtable: Jaya Saxena

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Mahira Rivers
May 20, 2026
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I remember the first Jaya Saxena story I ever read. The year was 2019 and it was a feature in Eater about authenticity in food. By then, the most vocal people in food media had belabored the point that the term authenticity was “bad” because it upheld a limited perspective that ignored the practical realities of a cuisine’s relationship to migration, ad…

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