I enjoy watching international food shows. A lot of times, it focuses on food that the normal people eat. They don't spend a lot of time on the $90 a plate places that nobody is interested in going to.
Ugly Delicious is hosted by an American born Korean guy. He went to high school at Georgetown Prep. A first generation American living the dream. In his early 40s, he's been very successful in a very difficult and competitive industry. He owns a bunch of restaurants that I imagine he has other people run because on his show he is literally all over the world filming segments. India, Turkey, Lebanon, Japan, you name it, he's been there.
And he interviews local food people. They talk about their food with a focus on how they develop the recipes. Often times the recipes are from family foods that were eaten growing up. Some of the people are still cooking in the place they grew up. Others have migrated somewhere else but keep cooking foods from their native land.
1 of the annoying, for me anyway, topics that come up often when speaking with these people is how their foods often get usurped. They they start in on Americans this and Americans that. Often white people are the culprits for ruining or bastardizing something near and dear to their heart. Often the host is the one that offers the question that leads to a bigoted response.
Here's some of the show's dialogue I was able to find online.
This is the sort of talk that goes on in each episode. Instead of just enjoying the food, the host is always on the search of something more sinister lying in the shadows. It's food. Eat it. Or don't eat it. But stop trying to find a racial aspect in every facet of life.
Or is this possibly some sort of deep held belief of the host, being a visible foreigner in a nation where the majority of the people don't look like him? The thing is his parents chose to come here. From all visible signs, they have created a nice life for themselves in the northern Virginia suburbs, They have a mcmansion home and were able to send their kids to a pricey private school. So clearly they were able to achieve the American dream, even though they don't look like the majority of Americans.
America. Love it, or leave it.
Here's a link to an article that looks at the shows racial slant. http://reappropriate.co/2018/05/digging-into-the-racial-politics-of-ugly-delicious/
Ugly Delicious is hosted by an American born Korean guy. He went to high school at Georgetown Prep. A first generation American living the dream. In his early 40s, he's been very successful in a very difficult and competitive industry. He owns a bunch of restaurants that I imagine he has other people run because on his show he is literally all over the world filming segments. India, Turkey, Lebanon, Japan, you name it, he's been there.
And he interviews local food people. They talk about their food with a focus on how they develop the recipes. Often times the recipes are from family foods that were eaten growing up. Some of the people are still cooking in the place they grew up. Others have migrated somewhere else but keep cooking foods from their native land.
1 of the annoying, for me anyway, topics that come up often when speaking with these people is how their foods often get usurped. They they start in on Americans this and Americans that. Often white people are the culprits for ruining or bastardizing something near and dear to their heart. Often the host is the one that offers the question that leads to a bigoted response.
Here's some of the show's dialogue I was able to find online.
This is the sort of talk that goes on in each episode. Instead of just enjoying the food, the host is always on the search of something more sinister lying in the shadows. It's food. Eat it. Or don't eat it. But stop trying to find a racial aspect in every facet of life.
Or is this possibly some sort of deep held belief of the host, being a visible foreigner in a nation where the majority of the people don't look like him? The thing is his parents chose to come here. From all visible signs, they have created a nice life for themselves in the northern Virginia suburbs, They have a mcmansion home and were able to send their kids to a pricey private school. So clearly they were able to achieve the American dream, even though they don't look like the majority of Americans.
America. Love it, or leave it.
Here's a link to an article that looks at the shows racial slant. http://reappropriate.co/2018/05/digging-into-the-racial-politics-of-ugly-delicious/
