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[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]Ok. In the chickpea stew recipe, it clearly references “stews found in South India and parts of the Caribbean” right there in the first sentence.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019772-spiced-chickpea-stew-with-coconut-and-turmeric

And here she is talking about the lentils and mentions the South Asian origin of dal: https://anewsletter.alisoneroman.com/p/gentle-lentils

She did not claim either as American cuisine, and did not claim to invent anything or discover a new ingredient.[/quote]

Yes, but she should have called them by their traditional names.[/quote]

So, for lentils and rice with some onions, every white lady **MUST** call it "mujedrah" rather than Larla's Lentils and Rice or they are canceled?  Come on people, gimme a break not buying it.[/quote]
Just don’t act like you invented a dish already known to civilization for thousands of years. What part of that is hard to understand?[/quote]

She didn't!  She mentioned South Asian dal and South Indian and Caribbean stews.  She didn't claim to invent it.  She didn't act like she invented it.  If she had used a word from another language and it's wasn't exactly right, people would be screaming that she was "appropriating" the word dal.

And traditional name in WHICH culture?  If a soup draws on traditions from three countries, which name is she supposed to use?

I get that there are real issues about who gets to be a cultural authority, and the ways in which nonwhite and white chefs are treated differently in terms of restaurants and cookbooks and the like.  But people are getting pissy because a white lady doesn't call her lentil soup dal, and that's just stupid.  [/quote]

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