Analysis Of The Article 'When Chefs Become Famous Cooking Other Cultures' Food

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In a March 2016 NPR article “When Chefs Become Famous Cooking Other Cultures' Food”, Maria Godoy, the host of NPR’s food blog, and Kat Chow, a journalist that covers race, ethnicity, and culture, identified and explained the controversy of cultural food being cooked by someone from another culture for money. Godoy and Chow examine the idea that it is inappropriate for a person of one culture to prepare the food of another culture, especially if there is a benefit. As Godoy and Chow report, “...who gets to cook other people's food can be squishy...” (Godoy, 2). They examine this idea of traveling through a list of examples of a person from one culture, cooking another culture's food for profit and presenting the criticisms and responses. I

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