A streaming platform crops Palestinian hands out of the frame. An Israeli chef rebrands our survival food as "modern." This is what cultural erasure looks like, one recipe at a time.
I sent MasterClass an email and got the AI response that everyone else must have gotten, and they mentioned the "spicy chili paste" twice for two separate episodes. As if that were the only issue.
I remember crossing into Palestine with an Israeli food guide in my bag in case I was searched. Every dish in it was Palestinian, just renamed and claimed to the point of absurdity. I remember the pleasure I felt when I threw it in the first bin I found.
They stole the land, houses, names, bodies, organs, money, jewellery, food, baby milk, vital aid, toys, even the innocence of men, women and children. There's NOTHING these parasites won't steal. If they could steal air they would. There's no line they won't cross because they believe they're entitled to everything. The one thing they need and deserve is a megadose of FAFO. It needs to be administered every day, for the next 78 years. No rest days, it's an intensive course and would be rendered ineffective if days are skipped.
Jesus wffing christ, I received a response quicker than me typing the words “done” to you.
This is part of their BS response:
“ I understand you have strong feelings about the cultural context and representation in this course. Your perspective on the importance of proper attribution to Palestinian and Levantine culinary traditions is noted.
MasterClass features instructors from diverse backgrounds who share their expertise and personal approaches to various subjects, including cooking. Yotam Ottolenghi's course focuses on his interpretation and techniques for Middle Eastern dishes, drawing from his own background and culinary journey.”
And mine right back at them.
“ I asked for a NON AI resonse and you send me regurgitated bullshit multiple paragraphs long within 1-2 minutes. “
Thanks for "taking into consideration "my feelings"" but this is NOT about "my feelings", or me at all, it IS about acknowledging what is wrong.
Last year I found a collection of TIME/LIFE coffee table cultural cuisine books from the 60s. I remembered them from my childhood - the cooking of Italy, China, Latin America etc... This time, in the neighbour's house, I searched for one that had not been part of my family's collection - from Israel... lots of euphemisms, coy references to the challenges of living there, but nowhere referencing the cultural cuisine of caraway, borscht and distinctly unspicy food shared with the inhabitants' forefathers from Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Poland. Like those peoples, I too grew up with no clue how to use garlic or any other un-English spices or herbs. Like them, I could have used a recipe book from 1936 explaining these alien flavours. But it would never have occured to me to pass off the dishes using them as from my English heritage. No qualms about that from the smooth operators posturing for that programme.
Pogroms can take varying forms and be enacted on any group or on its heritage.
I always knew that the colonialists Empire builders and those genocidal apartheid supporters, settlers land grabbers in US, UK, Europe steal everything from the People they are trying to dominate and eradicate. They steal the culture and our food and call it their own in order to ENRICH themselves. Why are they the ones that control ALL the financial institutions and the MEDIA, the Epstein class and AIPAC drug barons and those who are hooked by AIPAC and the paedophiles barons who have a hold on the paedos so that they can blackmail them. Look who are Trump financial supporters. They are one and the same. Criticise them -and Israel then they call you Antisemitic!
These crazy psychopaths should be dealt with , call them out boycott them wholesale.
I remember hearing an interview of Joudie Kalla on NPR and her courage to call it how it is, that Israelis have tried to appropriate the food of her mother's and their mother's. She did that interview in 2020. These corporations know and they allow the lie Israelis have sold.
this is the “self-indigenization” tuck and yang write about. its a whole country of “pretendians”
I sent MasterClass an email and got the AI response that everyone else must have gotten, and they mentioned the "spicy chili paste" twice for two separate episodes. As if that were the only issue.
Thank you for writing it so clearly.
Done.
I remember crossing into Palestine with an Israeli food guide in my bag in case I was searched. Every dish in it was Palestinian, just renamed and claimed to the point of absurdity. I remember the pleasure I felt when I threw it in the first bin I found.
They stole the land, houses, names, bodies, organs, money, jewellery, food, baby milk, vital aid, toys, even the innocence of men, women and children. There's NOTHING these parasites won't steal. If they could steal air they would. There's no line they won't cross because they believe they're entitled to everything. The one thing they need and deserve is a megadose of FAFO. It needs to be administered every day, for the next 78 years. No rest days, it's an intensive course and would be rendered ineffective if days are skipped.
Done, the draft email you composed was great - thanks for that
Thank you, Clara. 🙏🏽❤️🩹
Jesus wffing christ, I received a response quicker than me typing the words “done” to you.
This is part of their BS response:
“ I understand you have strong feelings about the cultural context and representation in this course. Your perspective on the importance of proper attribution to Palestinian and Levantine culinary traditions is noted.
MasterClass features instructors from diverse backgrounds who share their expertise and personal approaches to various subjects, including cooking. Yotam Ottolenghi's course focuses on his interpretation and techniques for Middle Eastern dishes, drawing from his own background and culinary journey.”
And mine right back at them.
“ I asked for a NON AI resonse and you send me regurgitated bullshit multiple paragraphs long within 1-2 minutes. “
Thanks for "taking into consideration "my feelings"" but this is NOT about "my feelings", or me at all, it IS about acknowledging what is wrong.
So let's try again.
How do you plan to remediate this issue???
Done!
🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you!!
Indienile has produced an excellent piece on precisely this issue.
Last year I found a collection of TIME/LIFE coffee table cultural cuisine books from the 60s. I remembered them from my childhood - the cooking of Italy, China, Latin America etc... This time, in the neighbour's house, I searched for one that had not been part of my family's collection - from Israel... lots of euphemisms, coy references to the challenges of living there, but nowhere referencing the cultural cuisine of caraway, borscht and distinctly unspicy food shared with the inhabitants' forefathers from Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Poland. Like those peoples, I too grew up with no clue how to use garlic or any other un-English spices or herbs. Like them, I could have used a recipe book from 1936 explaining these alien flavours. But it would never have occured to me to pass off the dishes using them as from my English heritage. No qualms about that from the smooth operators posturing for that programme.
Pogroms can take varying forms and be enacted on any group or on its heritage.
I always knew that the colonialists Empire builders and those genocidal apartheid supporters, settlers land grabbers in US, UK, Europe steal everything from the People they are trying to dominate and eradicate. They steal the culture and our food and call it their own in order to ENRICH themselves. Why are they the ones that control ALL the financial institutions and the MEDIA, the Epstein class and AIPAC drug barons and those who are hooked by AIPAC and the paedophiles barons who have a hold on the paedos so that they can blackmail them. Look who are Trump financial supporters. They are one and the same. Criticise them -and Israel then they call you Antisemitic!
These crazy psychopaths should be dealt with , call them out boycott them wholesale.
Defiance, the secret ingredient of Hummus. 🌱
لسه ما قدروش عالشطة
ولا رح يقدروا
ولا بقدروا! كله الا الشطة، كنز الامة
I remember hearing an interview of Joudie Kalla on NPR and her courage to call it how it is, that Israelis have tried to appropriate the food of her mother's and their mother's. She did that interview in 2020. These corporations know and they allow the lie Israelis have sold.
I'll certainly white to masterclass.