Reading into the articles linked and doing a bit of refreshing about it (I vaguely remember there being issues about Jamie Oliver’s jollof rice) the issues arise from him doing a “spin” on it, and still calling it jollof rice.

It doesn’t seem to me that the issues were over him appropriating the dish but rather calling something that isn’t jollof rice or paella or any other dish that Oliver has massacred, and then calling it the original. It presents a world to his audience that doesn’t exist and minimises the culture and cuisine that he’s interpreting.

I kind of get it from both sides, he’s trying to sell books and TV shows and there’s only so much food in the world and I think he’s pretty much done a recipe for nigh on everything already. But when I’ve wanted to replicate a dish I’ve eaten, because I’m a food nerd (and worked for 15 years in professional kitchens) it’s about studying a cuisine and wanting to celebrate it as authentically as possible.

To actually answer your question, no I don’t believe it’s always malicious or even intentional.

And my friend, you wouldn’t know him, he goes to a different school.

I disagree

Complaining on the Internet?

America

The striking thing for me here is the final examination for a geology course is to identify rocks. Isn’t that like the most basic bit of geology?

You can’t just type something wrong into Google and than use it to say the machine is stupid.

This fruit is hanging so low it’s already rotted into the ground.

The Message must have been lost on these people Born in the USA it’s a shame that The Revolution Will not be Televised because it might make it more obvious, but That’s Just the Way it is.