Jamie Oliver ’employs cultural appropriation specialists’ to avoid potential recipe insensitivities | Ents & Arts News

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  1. Is it too much to hope that the Cultural Appropriation Specialists are specialised in telling people to “fuck off” when they look for things to be offended about.

  4. Honestly, I consider myself fairly left wing and liberal but this cultural appropriation shit is utter bollocks. The way societies progress is by sharing each other’s cultures, as we have always done

  5. I’d love to know where this starts and stops. Do Italians need to stop using tomatoes and pasta? Indians can’t make curry. American cuisine can no longer exist.

  6. Just to be clear about this issue, a quote about cultural appropriation and food, from Meridien Mach:

    >”None of this is saying that one can only eat and cook the food of their own culture. When it comes to food cultural appropriation, it is not about who can or cannot do something, but rather the manner in which it is done. You can enjoy and cook another culture’s food that is not your own. However, when doing so, respect and learn where it came from. This is cultural appreciation rather than cultural appropriation.
    If you are going to profit off of food from another culture — especially one that has been historically exploited or oppressed — it is your responsibility to do it in a way that honors the cultural origins of the food.”

    Link: https://cornellsun.com/2021/03/25/food-cultural-appropriation-its-personal/

  7. I’m surprised there’s one person whose job is cultural appropriation specialist. Let alone multiple teams.

  9. > “Your immediate reaction is to be defensive and say, ‘For the love of God, really?'” he said. “And then you go, ‘Well, we don’t want to offend anyone’.”

    The only people being offended are professional grifters that make a living out of this shit. I doubt any normal people going about their lives gives a shit

  10. Lol, and out of his personal wealth .., will he pay what he owes to so many small companies and staff? One – two million something. Or he will goes under the official legal blah blah umbrella and fuck it all? I really appreciated the guy in the beginning. Went twice to the river café even. Onve he had left already. Followed him climbing and climbing. Got his naked chef dvds… but now? He went under my appreciation of bojo fucking tories lot. It must be something. The Frog who Aspired to Become as Big as the Ox?

  11. Perhaps he’s on damage control after 6 million people watched that negative reaction video of his Thai green curry: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksB2S90FVY&t=318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksB2S90FVY&t=318s)

    My main gripe when he tries cooking dishes outside his comfort zone is the over-confident way he makes technical mistakes and tries to dress them up as innovations. He’s done a lot of good things for promoting healthy food in his time, but the bluster is becoming a bit more apparent in recent times as the standard of British TV cooking shows has gone through the roof.

  14. I made a lasagna last night, but have never even been to Italy. To whom do I need to send my reparations for appropriating their culture?

  15. “honour and learn the history of the dish”
    Really ? Nah balls to that I just want to eat food I’m not gonna sit and google for 3 hours about the origins of a specific curry before I cook and eat it.

    Foods food if it’s good all the better.

  17. For a nation of people who will have a serious argument about what a cooked breakfast should be like, I’m a bit surprised that people don’t get it.

    Now imagine that, but the same culture who’s interfered with yours repeatedly doing it.

  18. Wait am i not allowed to have a cheese and ham bagett anymore because i am not frensh

    Can I not have pizza because I am not Italian, am I not allowed to have chips because potatoes are originally from South America and not the UK

    Can I not wear a shirt because they were originally Egyptian?

  19. “Cultural appropriation” is genuinely something that doesn’t even offend the most hardcore “woke” people I know, only fucking performative idiots

  22. This is what tees me off about the media – the piece details what happens when chefs get too inventive with their recipes and upset people.

    And it’s not as if we’re immune from it – I’ve seen some “interpretations” of a full English breakfast that could have easily led to death threats.

    Truth is, it’s not really “cultural appropriation” at all (and yes I know he’s quoted as saying that actual phrase, but that doesn’t mean he’s right in calling it that either). But that’s a great clickbait title to get a certain type of person harrumphing, and that’s all that matters these days.

  23. Oh just fuck off.

    Seriously, cultures take ideas from each other all the time and have been doing so since humans found ways to travel and communicate.

  24. I mean, I fully believe that food is an important part of culture.

    But seriously? How can you cultural appropriate food? Cultural appropriation should only apply to traditions and symbols that hold a clear cultural and historical significance to a specific people. Has anyone, ever in the entire history of man gone “well that food is sacred to my people, so you can’t use that recipe?”

  25. Surely any dish outside the Americas that is made using chillies or potatoes is a gross form of culinary appropriation. Is that how it’s meant to work?

  26. the whole idea of multiculturalism dies out when people cries “Cultural appropriation” and not to do something, either we’re all sharing in other cultures or we’re not.

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    Let’s be honest, it’s Uncle Roger, Jamie can’t get over the fact he done the rice wrong, didn’t use MSG and used Chili Jam so now he’s going to hire a team to ensure he doesn’t make another mistake.

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