When Expectations [don’t] Meet the Plate: The Jerk Shack

When a cuisine travels, what does it owe its origins, and what does it owe the people standing in line to buy it?

Expectations are funny things.

Carry them lightly, and they can heighten an experience. Let them harden into certainty, and they can ruin one before it has had a fair chance to reveal itself. I was re…