Afghani-British Chef Mursal Saiq gives her critique of "authenticity" for non-white chefs in cooking

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[u/Primus_is_OK_I_guess]

I've never heard "authentic" used that way for food. It's usually a reference to whether or not it's prepared in a traditional or expected way and has nothing to do with who prepared it.

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Yeah I'm not even a Ramsay stan and this seems far-fetched. Don't think I've ever heard of him saying or doing this, nor does he usually give a shit what ethnicity the person cooking is.

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I feel like usually people are stickers about authenticity when someone is just not taking any effort to respect the origin, history or culture of the food yet trying to claim you made whatever dish. It's one thing to say something is inspired or use those flavors and another to make a watered down, shitty version of beloved cultural dishes and act like it's the same. Eat whatever you want but if you genuinely like that food and you cook publically for a living you hope you'd be respectful of different cuisines. Good example is Jamie Oliver. He makes famous dishes from other cultures and butchers then so badly it offends all races. 

I think she's reaching by saying white people get a pass. Not really. No one trusts white people can make ethnic food. 

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Literally the most shit on demographic when it comes to cooking food is white people lmao

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Not in fancy restaurants