Slow Food, White feminists writing and speaking about "ethnic" kitchens
So I like the idea of Slow Food very much. Slowing down, cooking for ourselves rather than grabbing something on the way to somewhere, paying attention to ingredients, flavor. Also, sustainability and local foods. Paying attention
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Especially given all the amazing stuff going on in Detroit from the links (THANK YOU) you gave below? What a doofus.
The restaurant we went to this morning, though, was thankfully nowhere near as st00pid. It started out 32 years ago as a women's center, and the owner said she wanted there to be food, so ... restaurant. They also wanted a bookstore, so half the place is a tiny feminist bookstore ( ... )
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Whatever would we do without white people to tell us who we are?
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Yeah. I went anyway, and she was slightly less aggressively clueless and self-aggrandizing than I had feared. She's no Amanda Marcotte. But she was every bit as earnestly proud of her discovery that "Americans" (read: White people, see comment above) have this slight problem with erasing culture.
Which, hello? Why doesn't she list the culture she is connected to in her own description of her book? She talked a lot this afternoon about her Italian heritage and immigrant grandparents. Cool -- so don't erase it. You're "ethnic" too, not just the exotic brown ppl.
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