I’ve seen dozens and dozens of TV chefs and cooking shows over the years and IIRC very few (if any) have been black and yet many of the very best real world cooks I know have been black.
Why the disparity? Why are black people not good enough for Food TV or related cooking shows? Are foodies racist?
I might buy that “white male chefs” argument if there weren’t so many female chefs on TV and almost all of them are white. Blacks have been cooking (and inventing) “authentic” American cuisine(s) for centuries. Many blacks are renowned, near legendary cooks in their communities local kitchens and yet and yet there’s no place for them on cooking shows? … Ummm right.
It depends. Greens, pig feet and cornbread are not in my diet. You?
I know it might be a shocker to you, but amazingly there are accomplished black cooks that have a culinary repertoire larger than “some fatback and a mess o’ greens”.
Na, I’m not shocked. I’ve seen plenty on TV cooking shows to be honest.
OK, out of the dozens and dozens of cooking shows extant name two or three black chefs with their own cooking shows.
I don’t remember the guy’s name, but there was a bald, British black guy with his own cooking show. He did a special episode of Red Dwarf that was just smeggin’ hilarious.
There’s even a British sitcom about a black chef. (Don’t remember the name of it, though.)
Well this guy isn’t a “real” chef but did anyone ever see the PBS series “Chef” ??
That chef was a black chef running a kitchen in Britain or England I forget which. It was hysterical and I loved that show. I wish they’d bring it back.
I have seen plenty of AA chefs also, although I don’t watch much food tv, mostly a couple times during the week. We like to watch the “Best of” also there used to be a lot of chefs featured 10 years or so ago on the “Great Chefs” series if I recall.
:eek:
Was the bald black British chef named Ainsley Harriott, by any chance?
Perhaps this is why South Park has “Chef.”
Good point. Never thought about it. Sad to say the answer is probably, yes, foodies are racists.
Hmm, this seems like the diets of blacks in the Southern U.S. What of those who hail from, say, Boston? Or – try not to mess yourself – blacks from another country? Or wait a minute, what about blacks from the South who don’t eat pig feet and chitlins?! :eek:
Ainsley’s awesome… “Fire up the barbie*!”
*barbie=BBQ/grill. Though it’ll be cool to see him fire up some dolls from time to time
That would be the very funny Lenny Henry (UK comedian) who played the Chef in the series of the same name, Chef!. For those who don’t know Lenny is married to the equally funny Dawn French.
And Ainsley Harriet (again, British) is the only black chef I can think of at the moment. He’s far more interesting to watch than those boring white chefs, imho.
Yea, that sounds about right. I just remember him getting madder and madder as Lister kept screwing things up.
Yes!! Lenny…I loved that show. Thanks for the link. They don’t have it on DVD tho 
Bummer.
Just as a matter of interest what do you imagine the difference is?
Ainsley Harriott has his own show over here and he often has professional cooks co-presenting. Some of the snobbier ones seem to squeeze in a comment to the effect that he’s “not really a chef, he’s just a TV presenter” even though he has worked in good hotels and restaurants, and I think has/had his own catering business before he started on TV. There always seems to be an awkward silence after they say that. And no, I didn’t take my screen name from a character in Chef!.
Of courset the snobbier ones would say that. jerks.
The difference, hmmmm…
Well Britian is apart from England and Europe and that’s just geographically speaking. And the main reason is, my gf who is Welsh loses her mind if someone calls her English.
And when I want to get her goat, I refuse to call her a Brit and call her English. LOL
Her ire is good enough for me to set them apart. 