{"id":44581,"date":"2018-08-21T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44581"},"modified":"2023-04-09T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:42:24","slug":"celebrity-chef-accused-of-cultural-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/celebrity-chef-accused-of-cultural-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity chef accused of cultural appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/culture\/jamie-olivers-cultural-appropriation-of-jerk-rice\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Worstall<\/a> explains why, despite jerk chicken being something like the national dish of Jamaica, accusing Jamie Oliver of culturally appropriating it makes no sense whatsoever:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, here\u2019s a recipe for that jerk chicken which does seem to be close to being the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanbites.com\/jerk-chicken\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaican national dish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>Ingredients<br \/>\n8 -10 pieces of legs and thighs<br \/>\n1 lemon\/lime<br \/>\nSalt and pepper to season<br \/>\n\u00bd tablespoon cinnamon powder<br \/>\n1 sprig of fresh thyme<br \/>\n3 medium scallions (green onions) chopped<br \/>\n1 medium onion coarsely chopped<br \/>\n2-4 habanero pepper chopped<br \/>\n1 1\/2 tablespoon Maggi or soy sauce<br \/>\n1 tablespoon bouillon powder optional<br \/>\n3 tablespoons dark brown sugar<br \/>\n6 garlic cloves chopped<br \/>\n1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg<br \/>\n1 tablespoon allspice coarsely ground<br \/>\n1 1\/2 tablespoon fresh ginger chopped<br \/>\n1 tablespoon coarsely ground pepper<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As far as I can tell those ingredients coming from, in order \u2013 the chicken, SE Asia via land cultural exchange to Europe and then the Americas by the Portuguese and Spanish. Sure, some evidence of Polynesian delivery but on West Coast only. The lemon, SE Asia, salt everywhere, pepper India or perhaps Indonesia. Cinnamon, SE Asia but introduction to European thus Caribbean cuisines through Ancient Egypt and thus into Greece. Thyme, the Levant and Ancient Egypt, scallions at least as far back as Ashkelon and further east than that. Onions, definitely Eurasian, habaneros definitively Latin American. Soy sauce, think we\u2019ll allow Nippon to claim that, maybe China. Bouillon powder, industrial civilisation somewhere. Sugar, Indian subcontinent, garlic central Asia we think. Nutmeg and allspice the Spice Islands, now Indonesia. Ginger, South and SE Asia.<\/p>\n<p>So, someone who makes this is accusing us of cultural appropriation if we make it?<\/p>\n<p>Oh Aye?<\/p>\n<p>All of which is, of course, to misunderstand the basic point about human beings. We\u2019re apes, ones with a special and remarkable talent. We\u2019ve this readin\u2019 an\u2019 writin\u2019 stuff meaning that when we spot something that works we\u2019re able to tell other people about it. In a manner rather more efficient than just teaching junior to do what we\u2019ve learned to do. This is the secret of our success. That things once learned can be passed onto millions, billions, of other people. If we had to go reinvent the wheel each generation then we\u2019d not all be rolling around in cars now, would we?<\/p>\n<p>The very essence of our being the successful tool using species we are is that we copy. Appropriate that is. So insistences that we don\u2019t \u201cculturally\u201d appropriate are demands that we stop being us, stop being human. Well, you know, good luck with that, however delightful the concept of cultural appropriation is as a method of having something else to shout about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Worstall explains why, despite jerk chicken being something like the national dish of Jamaica, accusing Jamie Oliver of culturally appropriating it makes no sense whatsoever: Well, here\u2019s a recipe for that jerk chicken which does seem to be close to being the Jamaican national dish. 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