After 20 years immersing herself in food culture, Padma Lakshmi still had a burning question without a clear answer: what even is “American food,” anyway? “We throw around a lot of platitudes like,…
still had a burning question without a clear answer: what even is “American food,” anyway? “We throw around a lot of platitudes like, ‘nothing’s as American as apple pie.’ Well, apple pie is not American,” laughs Lakshmi. “Not one ingredient in apple pie is indigenous to North America. Not even the apple! So what are we talking about here?”Hulu
There were certain episodes that were really important for me. The Gullah Geechee episode [in South Carolina] was incredibly important to me. I wanted to look at African American food independent of its connection to white colonial food. It often gets just all lumped in with soul food or Southern food. [Many] African-Americans obviously are not immigrants, they are here as a result of forced migration, and deserve acknowledgement of this long history that they come to these shores with.
I started working with the ACLU early in January of 2017 shortly after the inauguration, and what prompted my work was the vilification of immigrants immediately after President Trump was sworn in, with the Muslim ban and family separation at the border. So much was being done in the name of American citizens that, as an American citizen who did start out as an immigrant, I felt frankly offended, and I wanted to do something.
A lot of legacy media outlets, like “Bon Appétit,” are now finding their own fault in not giving that credit while being entrenched in whiteness. What do you think media can do to change that going forward?
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