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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they claiming they created the dishes? Are they calling it American cuisine? I have my doubts, but please provide links to prove me wrong. [/quote]
Look at Alison Roman with her “chickpea stew” and “gentle lentils”.[/quote]

She totally deserved to be cancelled for that. I'm fine with white people making international cuisine, but give credit where credit is due. She was acting like these were original recipes. Lady, you're making Chole and daal!!![/quote]

except if she called it chole or dal she'd be equally cancelled.  what people REALLY want is for Alison Roman not to be allowed to do anything.

if a published chef has to give an international culinary history of each ingredient or technique, that's going to be pretty inconvenient.  lentil's originally came from the Middle East anyway.  [/quote]
dp. I don't think she should be canceled for it.  But, it does make her look ignorant, and also anyone else who doesn't realize that it's an ethnic dish and thinks it's a new American cuisine.  If they came across someone who knew what it was, and they said that, "oh, that's an <ethnic> cuisine", and the ignorant person kept insisting it wasn't, guess who looks the fool.

Maybe Roman knew that most of her followers were too ignorant to notice.[/quote]

:roll: I'm pretty sure that Alison Roman, who lives in multicultural NYC, reasonable assumes that her fans KNOW WHAT DAL IS.  Come on.

Trying to appropriate a legume for a single culture is really something though.    [/quote]
Not exactly sure what happened, but it seems it was more than just using legumes in her cooking.

No one has a problem with another culture learning to cook their food.  I sure don't - I'm east Asian.  However, if a person pretends that it was something they discovered on their own and doesn't acknowledge that the cuisine with a twist is actually from x country, then that is shameful.

Maybe she just neglected to mention it? IDK.. I don't follow her.  But, the issue is not other cultures learning to cook food from other cultures. It's pretending that what you created is not based on that cultural dish.[/quote]

Did you read her newsletter? She wasn't pretending to invent dal.  https://anewsletter.alisoneroman.com/p/gentle-lentils

And if she had called it dal she would have been equally open to critcism.

so basically the argument is she can't make anything with lentils.  [/quote]
DP here. This newsletter appears to be from this year, whereas the dust-up with Roman happened a year or two ago. I am assuming that at this point she is really careful about attributing the foods she cooks.[/quote]
Not really. She caught heat for the “gentle lentils” last month and went around editing her newsletter and insta. [/quote]

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