The best prosciuttos and mozzarellas are from Italy. The best teas are from China. Why can’t anyone who wants to recreate the process anywhere they want? In a greenhouse? In a factory?
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Maybe you could in a greenhouse. In fact some plants are grown indoors to achieve better quality or at least specific qualities not usually seen in that climate. But it’s expensive to do this. It could be equally or more expensive than importing the “authentic” food from the original location so if you start a company making very controlled foods meant to taste like French wine or Italian cheese you might need to get customers to pay you equal or more than *actual imported products* and that might be difficult to market…
In reality it makes more sense to embrace the differences. California winemakers grow some good grapes and make some good wine. They can just deal with whatever differences exist because of California’s different climate and soil and water compared to France and produce a good product at a good price. Or they could spend a fortune and waste energy building giant greenhouses and creating artificial light and either adding or removing water to create conditions exactly like France… why? So they can sell an extremely expensive bottle of wine that is “just like French wine” for a customer who is perfectly able to go one aisle over and *just buy real French wine instead*? It’s not a good financial decision.
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