Food Writing - Is There a Ton of Progress?

I find myself wondering, if they were of your generation, would that have been the case. How much progress has been made in terms of wanting to be accepted by what is still a pretty, why, straight, english language speaking cannon? I think that impulse still exists. i definitely had a lot of, there's still traces of me that do have that kind of, you know, impulse and thi desire to be ivalidated by these institutions. The industry is still just barely left a centr on a good day. It's like, pretty conservative from my view, you know.