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<\/p>\nAnd, start listening to Black people.<\/p>\n
A while ago, probably at least five years, maybe six, because it was when he was living in Chicago and that was 2013-2017, I bought my son Al the Thug Kitchen Cookbook.<\/p>\n
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I naively, unawarely, no doubt, thought it seemed suited to his sensibilities, as a young, hip, white man, and pop culture maven. The cookbook was based on a podcast of the same name.<\/p>\n
Turns out that Thug Kitchen (TK) was actually created by a white couple, Matt and Michelle. A Black vegan chef and activist, Bryant Terry<\/a>, wrote a piece in 2014<\/a> questioning TK, and outting Matt and Michelle. I am ashamed to admit that even though I own two of Terry’s cookbooks (and just ordered his newest, Vegetable Kingdom) I did not see this until just this year, 2020. During a week when in addition to the protests over the killings of Black people, prominent white editors have stepped down at the New York Times<\/a>, and at Bon Appetit<\/a><\/em> for perhaps implicit, but feels like overt, racism.<\/p>\n You can hear Bryant Terry talking about it, here:
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