This is frankly a racist assumption that Mexican food or Indian food should be cheap. These are in many cases really complex, wonderful sauces cuisines, and I think we should pay more attention to it, learn more about it, and value it more. “I think it’s the most undervalued, under-appreciated world cuisine with tremendous, tremendous potential. “I would like people really to pay more for top-quality Mexican food,” he said. This week, he participated in a Reddit AMA, where he stated that Mexican food deserves more prestige. Bourdain, on the other hand, has tried to highlight Mexican cuisine, as well as Mexican cooks, along the way. This isn’t even getting into the more sus things he’s said about the state of Mexican food in the US. But we have to stop and say, ‘Oh wait, is that plain racism then?'” Because I’m white, I can’t do anything with Mexican food. I know that there have been a number of people out there that criticized me only – only – because of my race. “And everybody thinks, ‘Oh, lots of people must believe that.’ And honestly, I don’t think they do. Those people that say it are usually very political, and they have a mouthpiece and they just go around saying it,” he said. “Well, usually people who have that opinion of me don’t want to have a conversation. Just this year on the Sporkful podcast, Bayless lashed out at his critics. As a white chef touted as the face of Mexican cuisine in the United States, Bayless becomes defensive with those who question if there’s an element of appropriation in his work. When it comes to their connections to Mexican culture, chefs Anthony Bourdain and Rick Bayless have taken wildly different approaches.

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