I hear all this uproar all the time about people who use cultural appropriation, yet sometimes I just don’t see what the problem is. I get that it has been done for malicious intent before and I’m not defending that or suggesting I agree with doing it for such purposes, but is, for example, a chef cooking a certain dish that originates from a land that is not his own, or other examples, really worth the same uproar?
The Problem with Jamie Oliver is that he doesn’t represent the cultural dishes very well by heavily editing the original recipe and removing flavors that are special to the culture
Personally I’d be fine with that, if he acknowledged the existence of the original flavours, instead of just pretending that his version is the “normal” one.