{"id":156951,"date":"2021-01-18T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/save-us-from-the-cultural-appropriation-complaints-about-food\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:52:13","slug":"save-us-from-the-cultural-appropriation-complaints-about-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/save-us-from-the-cultural-appropriation-complaints-about-food\/","title":{"rendered":"#Save us from the ‘cultural appropriation’ complaints about food"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Save us from the ‘cultural app<\/a>ropriation’ complaints about food<\/strong>”
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Culinary-correct food journalism sounded a new depth of \u00adideological lunacy last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eater.com, the well-regarded restaurant site that increasingly indulges sociopolitical malarkey at the expense of the innocent \u00adenchilada, carried a lengthy essay by reporter Erika Adams<\/a> under the headline: \u201cShake Shack \u00adResponds to Criticism Over \u00ad\u2018Korean-Style\u2019 Fried Chicken Menu Debut.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It seems the Danny Meyer-owned burger chain trespassed \u2014 in the eyes of a handful of Twitter<\/a> gripers \u2014 in using that description for what Adams called a \u201cloose interpretation\u201d of the genuine Korean article. Well, what other kind of interpretation do you expect from a global fast-food restaurant chain?<\/p>\n

A few online posts predictably assailed Shake Shack for \u201ccultural appropriation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, slap some gochujang on something, and it\u2019s Korean,\u201d\u00a0Giaae Kwon, a New York City-based writer, tweeted. Eater also cited\u00a0\u00adcomedian Dash Kwiatkowski, who fumed, \u201cIt feels like white people slapping together a bunch of things because they perceive it as Korean and then profiting off of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the entire \u201ccultural-appropriation\u201d shtick as applied to food is the stuff of comedy. The question isn\u2019t why a handful of cranks believe in it, but why the media \u2014 including Eater.com, the single most comprehensive and influential culinary site devoted to industry news<\/a>, culinary trends and smartly crafted restaurant criticism \u2014 devote so much attention to a few Twitter whiners.<\/p>\n

The Eater story quotes a feeble, defensive response by Shake Shack\u2019s culinary director, Mark Rosati. He said that the company had after all consulted with Korean chefs, sourced knowledge of Korean cuisine from prominent writers and influencers and visited restaurants in Seoul with employees of SPC Group, a major South Korean food company.<\/p>\n

But that isn\u2019t enough in today\u2019s unforgiving cultural kangaroo court. No innocent explanation is ever enough. Rosati allowed, \u201cI can definitely see how someone might think this here.\u201d<\/p>\n

His proper response should have been: Eat this! If Shake Shack is guilty of culinary \u201cappropriation,\u201d then so is a place in Seoul called Brooklyn the Burger Joint, which is described on Yelp! as \u201clike stepping into an old, small-town America joint.\u201d<\/p>\n

There, they not only appropriated Yankee Doodle cuisine, but our architecture as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s surprising that the culinary cancel culture hasn\u2019t yet targeted Applebee\u2019s\u2019 \u201cTuscan Garden\u201d and \u201cOriental\u201d chicken salads \u2014 which aren\u2019t\u00a0cultural appropriations so much as desecrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big world out there, and if an Italian-American restaurant chef wants to \u201csteal\u201d a recipe from Thailand, or a Turkish-American chef deigns to reinterpret a Greek dish, it isn\u2019t a \u201ccultural\u201d atrocity in the league of Nazi Germany\u2019s art looting.<\/p>\n

Some \u201cethnic\u201d (a now-forbidden word) American chefs and writers fly into orbit because many chefs who are not themselves Asian or Mexican or Palestinian profit by cooking and selling their native cuisines. They regard this sort of exchange as plundering their culture the way Picasso \u201cstole\u201d from African sculpture.<\/p>\n

Grumbling is understandable, if not quite justified when, say, a Mexican-born chef struggles to earn a living, while non-Mexican chef Rick Bayless<\/a> is hailed as the best \u201cMexican\u201d chef in the United States for his great Topolobampo in Chicago, one of President Barack Obama\u2019s favorite places.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But much of the media-accelerated resentment reflects an underlying grudge against Western civilization, period.<\/p>\n

From now on, let\u2019s call out any diner that serves \u201cItalian,\u201d \u201cGreek\u201d or \u201cMexican\u201d omelettes \u2014 and hope we get the same respectful consideration.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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