I Call My Food Personal, Not Fusion

“I hate the ‘F’ word,” says Samantha Fore. “I think it diminishes the value of what we do as chefs.” Fore is the chef/owner of Tuk Tuk Sri Lankan Bites, a pop-up in Lexington, Ky., where she was born after her parents immigrated to America from Sri Lanka in the early 1970s. She’s asked about fusion a lot. “If I’m making an okra dish I grew up with, the fact...