Appreciate this very thoughtful mod response. It’s easy to get too wrapped up on yes/no answers when reality is far more fuzzy and complicated than that.
As an AAPI, I didn’t see anything more to this than a funny little nod to the people who actually prepare ethnic cuisines in countries not of their origin.
Yeah. We’re all called chef in the kitchen. It’s respect. Who cares where you’re from if you can cook it with love (or, as the occasion calls for, salt)
I saw it for the humor too. As a joke, at steakhouses - my southeast Asian wife used to demand “authentic” Texan bbq from REAL Texans. She’d say things like, “He looks like he’s from Wisconsin. I can tell.”
Appreciate this very thoughtful mod response. It’s easy to get too wrapped up on yes/no answers when reality is far more fuzzy and complicated than that.
As an AAPI, I didn’t see anything more to this than a funny little nod to the people who actually prepare ethnic cuisines in countries not of their origin.
Yeah. We’re all called chef in the kitchen. It’s respect. Who cares where you’re from if you can cook it with love (or, as the occasion calls for, salt)
I saw it for the humor too. As a joke, at steakhouses - my southeast Asian wife used to demand “authentic” Texan bbq from REAL Texans. She’d say things like, “He looks like he’s from Wisconsin. I can tell.”