Piling on with 'warnings' about Black and diaspora dishes is a playful act of protection — one that inserts Black voices in the center of culinary conversation.
, a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based chef. Most of the early videos on TikTok of Café Bustelo were made by Cuban Americans sharing family recipes. And themagazine article from Underground Gourmet columnist Tammie Teclemariam just encouraged readers to visit longstanding roti shops in heavily Caribbean neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, which are all owned by members of those communities.
But even if a Nigerian chef is the one teaching people to make jollof rice, or they’re learning how to make cafecito from an abuelo on TikTok, you never know who is watching, and what they will do with that information. All it takes is one person with a large following talking about this great recipe they “discovered” on their For You page, and it becomes theirs. Even if they do try to give credit, many people may continue associating something like Mielle hair oil with a white woman’s face.
Wanting to scare people away from your culture’s cuisine is a matter of people acting out of hurt, even if they are also acting in humor. These culinary traditions are hard-fought in Black and immigrant communities, in a country where these groups face both outright violence and the insidious pressure to assimilate. Racism and capital have made culture and history not a matter of experience, but one of ownership.
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