Expertise and Appropriation, Guest-Curated by Black Food Folks

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Food Writers' Workshop

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In light of recent articles about the dearth of POC voices in food criticism and the need to diversify food media, what are POC food professionals responsibilities in analyzing, discussing, and transmitting cultures not their own? How can we be objective food writers without falling into the same traps as our White counterparts of appropriating and exoticizing culinary cultures that aren’t “our own”? By virtue of our writing, we are considered experts—what kind of implications does this have when we are considered experts on other POC cuisines?