This year, departing favorites gave way to audacious new series, and streaming services brought viewers outstanding foreign fare.
Even our infamous lack of language skills can be seen as an advantage when it comes to embracing foreign fare.
Other foreign fare well represented are the sushi, sashimi and cooked dishes at the spare, low-key and friendly Sachi.
This preponderance of foreign fare can be explained partly by good intentions: a desire to expose children to the art and life of other cultures.
On rare occasion, the Academy widens the pool to include foreign fare in its main races – Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin both memorably benefited from such instances.
(One wonders what Craig Claiborne, the postwar Times critic with a soft spot for foreign fare and fried chicken, would have made of upstate kale and melon foam).
Besides his undeniable talent, there is another explanation: the skewed nature of TV-production subsidies in France means that it is often cheaper to buy foreign fare than it is to produce locally.
She theorized that a larger cultural shift is happening: The new appetite for foreign fare might have started with the mass popularity of translated Scandinavian thrillers, from Stieg Larsson to Jo Nesbo, or it may have been the accidental result of cash-strapped public television schedulers searching for new quality drama with a reasonable price tag.
Foreign fare is also on offer, including spicy tuna tempura (99 kroner) at Sushi Lovers (sushilovers.dk); plates of Spanish pata negra ham (60 kroner) at Tapa del Toro; and soft brie cheese from Melun, France (250 kroner per kilo), at Ma Poule, whose French-born owner, Edouard Cazazian, defected to Torvehallerne from Borough Market in London.
The new appetite for foreign fare might have started with the mass popularity of translated Scandinavian thrillers, from Stieg Larsson to Jo Nesbø, or it may have been the accidental result of cash-strapped public television schedulers searching for new quality drama with a reasonable price tag.
