The 1st paragraph was needed context- especially within the cooking world where very few White chefs (and it is interesting who is a chef and who is a cook) acknowledge things that are NOT specifically European in origin or whose basis depends on the labor and intellectual work of non Europeans. Rick Bayliss is an…

I have read some excerpts and instead of waiting at the library, gonna buy it and read on Kindle ( I know! I know!) .

Thank you for writing this so I did not have to.

I chuckled AND blanched to be honest! Thus the WHOOOA.

I push back a tiny bit on the loveless marriage. Charles I think wanted to love Diana; she was supposedly the type of girlfriend, then wife that he was supposed to want, and Diana had his attention and affection.  But it was not enough.

Hold up.

I starred this because WHOOOOA.

Princess Diana also physically abused Prince Charles - she would hit and slap him, even when he was on his knees at prayers.

This is a surprising large amount of small town White men: they may not be (openly!) racist, and find overt racism distasteful. They may even have Black grandchildren who are the apple of their eye, buying them horses and trucks and such.

Actually perfect, Mike, as usual.

Shit at least decomposes and fertilizes.

WHOOOP there it is!

It is word salad.

Kirstjen Nielson is a fucking evil monster. Don’t ever, but EVER forget that.

Damn, this was crisp and smart! #commentoftheday

No- I think a lot of people are simply fed up. Pointing out ongoing cultural appropriation and outright theft- and yes, that has happened in cooking- is not having chip on the shoulder. It’s pointing out the truth. And BTW- the people stolen from do get to say it’s stolen.

Part of the controversy is the fact White people- yes specifically White people- have and continue to steal ideas things and people, whole cloth, then profit from it with zero guilt and zero accountability.

All of what you say.

It really was! That article really transmited a whiff of fear and shock: that Harry *actually* cares about his wife, that he is smarter than previously thought,and is openly exercising privilege in a way that does not benefit them..

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