NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alex Abad-Santos, a senior writer for Vox, about a lack of diversity among chefs, writers and reviewers in the food world.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
America's national reckoning with racial inequality has reached far beyond policing, into Hollywood, finance, sports and also food.
SHAPIRO: So how does that personal experience from your youth fit more broadly into the marginalization that you're observing in the world of food writ large right now?
It's got - I guess, like, a catchy term would be Columbus-ing (ph) food or like food colonialism, which is where...
SHAPIRO: Claiming you discovered it when others were there all along.
SHAPIRO: So why does an Indian chef cooking the food of her own culture tend to get less mainstream attention and praise than a white chef who uses a lot of Indian ingredients in her recipes?
