On episode 8 of The Carousel Podcast I chat with restaurants veteran Michael Nemcik
about shifts in mainstream culinary propaganda.
- The overwhelming inaccuracies and “snowflakery” of the hit Hulu show The Bear. Nemcik recently moved to Chicago where the supposedly gritty slice-of-life show takes place.
- The James Beard Awards
are the Oscars of the cooking industry and, like the Oscars, recently shifted its primary mission from celebrating excellence to achieving inclusion. Nemcik, as a person of color, discusses the cheapening effects of a more propagandistic awards.
- The achievements (and demographic realities) of asians and Hispanics in the kitchen seem to go unrecognized by media like The Bear and the James Beard Awards.