I've tweeted some about who dominates food writing in LA -- why it's misrepresentative of the city and a disservice to readers.
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Replying to @aurabogado
Let me step a little further back. Sometime last year, the publication I used to work at did a FB LIVE thing of staffers eating insects.pic.twitter.com/B1ipQAvETV
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Replying to @aurabogado
When I heard about the FB live idea, I rolled my eyes. Indigenous peoples been eating insects as delicacy and/or sustenance forever.
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Replying to @aurabogado
All of the sudden, some white folks find that insects have nutritional value and they Pinta, Niña, and Santa María the hell out of it.pic.twitter.com/vu8L1zlCcc
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Replying to @aurabogado
Non-white people eat all kinds of things that disgust and/or fascinate white folks. Insects. Horses. Dogs. Just how it is.
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Replying to @aurabogado
Anyway. I finally covered about food in LA! Restaurant I wrote about serves chicatanas (roasted ants). Silvia Granja makes sala with them.pic.twitter.com/UYtLJZuBfj
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Replying to @aurabogado
I got to write about chicatanas as dignified food -- no need to make them exotic. I consciously chose to decenter white tastes.
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Replying to @aurabogado
It felt good to write about food in this way, and to have an awesome editor who totally got what I was doing here.http://laist.com/2017/07/21/sabores.php …
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I'm eager to read more writing about food in LA that doesn't exoticize what's normal for non-white eaters. Link me when you see it :)
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