Stakeholders and Experts in Culinary Cultural Heritage.

The article establishes the distinction between stakeholders and experts in culinary cultural heritage to help address the problem posed by culinary authenticity. The notion of culinary authenticity is said to capture the distinction between correct and incorrect renditions of a dish or other culinary product by taking into account the components of replication and provenance requirements. The characteristic features of wicked problems is assumed by the connection between culinary heritage and authenticity. It considers a cultural item that has been in an individual's communal cultural practices as a necessary condition for an individual stakeholder status in the context of culinary heritage. An expert of a food item is one who is familiar with the central aspects of a food item.