Foreign Food Influencers
A sure sign of foreign influence operations is to write about food, especially extremely tasty and attractive foreign dishes. Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Mexican, Japanese are favorites, not so much Canadian, English, Russian, Scandinavian, Balkan, Baltic, African, and least favorite those from Australia and New Zealand.
Road kill is a no-no, so are pets, reptiles, insects, maggots, even though those are super-popular gastronomy in other countries. If those dishes appear in a story the intended consumer is not American, well, maybe a few go for the oddities.
A trained intelligence analyst will be able to identify both the origin and the destination by the way edibles are featured, like po-boys for Louisiana, chicken-fried for Texas, mashed taters for Mississippi, sushi for NY and CA, bbq for the whole outdoors.
Borscht, you got it, CIA churns out these fav cuisine news reports by the thousands aimed at vodka gobblers like those running IRA, RT, GRU, FSB, Pravda, and for certain Kremlin.
Notably, Popeye's chicken sandwich is a second best to canine in Beijing while a mega-lotto winner in US states that allow double votes.