Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.