Stories like this make my head hurt.<\/p>\n
Mexican food is my favorite food. Does that mean I should only eat it in restaurants operated by Mexicans? <\/p>\n
Forward<\/a>: …a restaurant called Shalom Y\u2019all sits in the problematic \u201cAppropriative Business\u201d column. Its owner is listed as John Gorham, its cuisine, \u201cMultiple Middle Eastern Cuisines.\u201d The suggested alternative: a Lebanese establishment, Al-Amir Restaurant.<\/p>\n According to the spreadsheet\u2019s \u201cCriteria for Appropriation\u201d guide, the \u201cAppropriative Business\u201d column is for \u201c[r]estaurants or food carts selling non-European international cuisine owned solely<\/em> by white people who were not born or raised in the country or region from which the restaurant\u2019s cuisine originates.\u201d As per Shalom Y\u2019all\u2019s website<\/a>, Shalom Y\u2019all specializes in \u201cIsraeli street food.\u201d Ron Avni, one of the partners, important enough to be featured on the restaurant\u2019s About page, \u201cgrew up in Israel\u201d and \u201cmoved to the USA shortly after completing the mandatory Israeli army service.\u201d If a co-owner is Israeli, as is the cuisine, surely the criteria for making the list aren\u2019t met? It would seem that either spreadsheet\u2019s creators missed that key detail, or they\u2019re making an out-of-context political point about Israeli cuisine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stories like this make my head hurt. Mexican food is my favorite food. Does that mean I should only eat it in restaurants operated by Mexicans? Forward: …a restaurant called Shalom Y\u2019all sits in the problematic \u201cAppropriative Business\u201d column. Its … Continue reading