#ba test kitchen

I think the biggest thing coming out of the bon appetit/conde naste situation is; Celebrities cannot be your safe space. They will disappoint you, they will make mistakes. some will be racist and homophobic on a major scale and not apologize. Your safe space cannot be in a person that you share a parasocial relationship with because there is every possibility that the persona they share with the world is not the whole picture. You will eventually be disappointed by those you give your safety to when they have no way of knowing what responsibility you've given them. Your safety does not exist in the hands of online celebrities.

I don’t watch bon appetit so I don’t really know what’s happening but I saw a post going around about supporting cooking YouTube channels created by poc and I wanted to suggest that people watch Homemade by Steven Lim. Each episode Steven learns how to cook a dish from a different cuisine first from a restaurant owner and then from someone who has been cooking the dish in their home their whole life. This person is usually a family friend of Stevens’. It does a really good job showing how poc pass cultural knowledge down and how the restaurant scene differs from the experiences poc have cooking at home, while also exploring how poc incorporate their culture into restaurant experiences. Also check out Stevens’ other show grocery run where he interviews other Asian Americans who are successful in their fields and his podcast hidden narratives which focuses on how covid has impacted the Asian community