I don’t think it’s really racist (beyond apparently not realizing that many of these ingredients are usually staples in their respective cuisines and she only needs to buy so many to cook one dish because it’s the first one she’s cooked, and it’s not something specific to Asian food), but in the replies she categorizes any dish with a sauce as complicated so it’s definitely ridiculous.
Every culinary culture has its staple ingredients and its niche ingredients. Have I gone to a korean supermarket to buy a very specific sauce/paste for a recipe and then not use it again? Yeah definitely but also I use my Worcestershire sauce like twice a year at most and you’ll have to pry my sesame oil from my cold dead hands.
I mean, she also said she avoids basically all sauces since they tend not to be healthy, she just seems to have something of a preference for “simple” food.
She also did literally address that different people have different staples, and she’s repeated that she’s talking about around her, in America
It’s a bad assessment, but that doesn’t make it “weirdly racist”.
I don’t think it’s really racist (beyond apparently not realizing that many of these ingredients are usually staples in their respective cuisines and she only needs to buy so many to cook one dish because it’s the first one she’s cooked, and it’s not something specific to Asian food), but in the replies she categorizes any dish with a sauce as complicated so it’s definitely ridiculous.
Every culinary culture has its staple ingredients and its niche ingredients. Have I gone to a korean supermarket to buy a very specific sauce/paste for a recipe and then not use it again? Yeah definitely but also I use my Worcestershire sauce like twice a year at most and you’ll have to pry my sesame oil from my cold dead hands.
I mean, she also said she avoids basically all sauces since they tend not to be healthy, she just seems to have something of a preference for “simple” food.
She also did literally address that different people have different staples, and she’s repeated that she’s talking about around her, in America