Actual Koreans gave their takes on a recent Bon Appétit kimchi tutorial video featuring a white chef, and they weren’t too happy. Two mother-daughter pairs, Hyera and her daughter Fin, and Michelle and her daughter Vivian, watched the outlet’s tutorial as part of a video for Bad Appetite Magazine, a Facebook page that calls out instances of cultural appropriation in food. Bon Appétit’s video had drawn a flood of criticism from many in the Asian-American community for failing to tap an actual Korean chef for the tutorial instead of the outlet’s test kitchen manager, Brad Leone. According to the pairs, Leone didn’t quite pass with flying colors. But Hyera mentions, laughing, that she “didn’t expect that much,” anyway.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2018 20:31 UTC