Yotam Ottolenghi on cultural appropriation and the politics of hummus
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- Yotam Ottolenghi is an Israeli-English chef, restaurant owner and food writer who taught Britain to love vegetables. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
He has published seven best-selling cookbooks inspired by his Middle Eastern upbringing in a German/Italian family and owns six restaurants and deli’s across London.
Since arriving in London over 20 years ago, Yotam Ottolenghi has made it his mission to help British people see vegetables as something other than a “necessary evil”. While not a vegetarian himself, his latest book 'Flavour' is entirely vegetable-focused.
This week on Ways to Change the World, he speaks with Krishnan about cultural appropriation and the politics of hummus.
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Krish, I listen to all your CTW interviews and have to say this was my favourite...what an interesting, intelligent, mindful and just lovely human.....
Interesting interview, such amazing recipes.
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Middle Eastern food is one of my favourite food and Ottolenghi is one of my fave chefs - his recipes.
He taught Britain to love vegetables? That's a bold claim for you to make.
No-one ate potatoes or carrots before Yotam arrived.
My new favorite chef #GOOTK
Checks “early life”. Every. Single. Time.
Its always your take on the food and there is no appropriation unless you claim to make it more authentic than the country of origin.
Food changes constantly, the vast majority of popular Indian food arrived in with the Moguls and are in the Indian diet for less than 500 years, the same with Italian foods that contain tomatoes as it arrived from the new world - can you imagine pasta or pizza without passata?
@@ngxoxo I said popular Indian food, biryani and korma dishes. The dishes that are ordered in most Indian restaurants in Europe or US and considered to be Indian.
Cultural appropriation starts 20:20
"If only we could inject more politics into food" said nobody likeable, ever.
Putinbotz pretending to be British is cultural appropriation.
Innit?! Or am I fishing for trolls? I'll surely catch one in a response!
@Harry Barry Gotcha. #ShitpostQuean
@Harry Barry You work for Russian state shitpost ops - but I am normal. Pretending to be British is cultural appropriation.
you talk about your father a lot (or your parents, the ones who have expectations and worries for you and strained to cultural boundaries)... does the harm and effort they endured "to get stronger and face the community" counts a little in your struggle to be gay? or does it pay more in terms of joining the elite to be gay? ones sexual orientation is non of mine or anyone's business, obliging me to admire you is my business.
Small minded people having their identity invested in food. I thought we were all cosmopolitan
Cultural Appropriation Day is 17th March
I agree - Patrick was an agent for the Roman Empire.
Ok, BAMEs, time to hand over the blue jeans, medicines and technology and stop straightening your hair. Thats cultural appropriation, don’t you know.
The internet should only be available to Western countries, because we invented it, hence this interview would not be able to occur. Doing otherwise is cultural appropriation! 🤦♀️🤷♂️
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First: A minority culture using something created by a powerful majority culture is not the same thing as a majority using something created by a minority. Context matters. Second, how the thing is used matters to whether it is cultural appropriation. I don't have a problem with anyone eating hummus. I have a problem with non-Arabs claiming hummus is theirs, in a way that further erases awareness of the existence of Palestine. That is cultural appropriation. Imagine if European-Americans were a small minority struggling for equality in America, and invented the Internet, and then whoever the majority was had all the power over what happened to that invention.
@Hestia Demeter You're completely missing the point...
Everybody out , EVERYBODY !
I don’t care for Israel 🇮🇱 or Palestine 🇵🇸 everybody out now
Hilfiger You Tell them ..
Hilfiger Do it !
Hummus is middle eastern food Arab , Jew and Persian. I’m Iraq and we have so many hummus dishes and it’s part of our culture I don’t see why it’s problem if Israelis said it’s part of their culture too
Hi, I'm also Iraqi with Jewish relatives in Israel. It is a problem that nowadays, many Westerners are not aware of even the existence of Palestine, so when hummus is presented as an "Israeli" food without context, this contributes to further erasing Palestine. No one is saying Israelis can't enjoy and appreciate hummus as part of their cuisine. It becomes cultural appropriation when that is done in a way that contributes to worsening Palestinian rights.
@@reenajoubert Israeli kingdom existed long before, they have every right to call their food their own, just as every Levant or Arab culture does. Jews lived in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East long before that even. The vacant land of the Jews, which the Roman conquerors had name Palestina, and the English named Palestine is irrelevant to Jewish cultural origins and consequential food culture. Arab colonialism adopted as their own almost all the foods of all the cultures they conquered and lands they colonized. People don’t love history, as it’s unpalatable.
@@8xXcoolbeansXx8 your understanding of history is poor, embarrassing really
@@8xXcoolbeansXx8 you still have time to delete this