Posts Tagged ‘Condescension’

On Culinary and Cultural Condescension

Posted by Chad on November 20th, 2009 under Opinion Tags: , , ,  •  2 Comments

I very rarely blog about political or cultural issues, but this commentary was so dead-on accurate that I just had to comment on it:
In a recent episode of Top Chef, the American cooking show I appear on, I complained about the other judges’ insistence on pronouncing ‘paella’ as ‘py-ay-a’. ‘You don’t say “Bar-the-lona” or “Me-hi-co”,’ [...]