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Kenji Lopez-Alt has a great YouTube cooking channel.

by flint 4y ago

SeanLuke 4y ago
Yes and no. Yes, he does a great run-though of a variety of dishes. No, in that he has the camera affixed to his head or hand and bouncing around and the result is highly vertigo-inducing. Is the informative nature of a food channel worth the intense nausea caused from watching it?
- bvisness 4y ago
  I love the POV style, especially paired with the lack of cuts. Gives me a better sense of everything he's doing in the kitchen - when else would you see how he keeps his fridge or spice cabinet organized?
tpmx 4y ago
In that odd food ⨯ politics genre. I'm a centrist by US standards, but he pushed my buttons hard enough to unsub after a year.
- throw7 4y ago
  I don't mind politics, but I couldn't take it. The guy clearly knows the answer to everything.
- aerostable_slug 4y ago
  When he refused to call kaffir lime by its widely accepted name because it might potentially offend someone, I had about enough. What silliness, especially when the etymology of the term remains undecided. Are we also going to stop called puttanesca dishes by their name because sex workers might be offended because it includes a profane term? Can we finally say enough to the constant quest for purity typified by a food critic penning a column on what words she won't use?[0] She won't even write "guilty" because that might trigger someone, even though I think nearly anyone would agree that an Animal Style 3x3 from In-N-Out is indeed a guilty pleasure. I just want to cook and eat good food, not play these kinds of nonsense games that cater to a certain rather noisy (and politically homogeneous) audience. [0]: "The trouble comes from the fact that the word is a cognate for a slur used by white colonists to refer to Black Africans in South Africa. Though the spirit of the word likely has very little to do with the latter context, my reasoning is the same as the reason why you’re never going to catch me casually saying or writing the word “niggardly.”" https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Words-you-ll-never-see-me-use-in-restaurant-13652564.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Words-you-ll...
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Kenji Lopez-Alt has a great YouTube cooking channel.

by flint 4y ago

Kenji Lopez-Alt has a great YouTube cooking channel.

Yes and no. Yes, he does a great run-though of a variety of dishes. No, in that he has the camera affixed to his head or hand and bouncing around and the result is highly vertigo-inducing. Is the informative nature of a food channel worth the intense nausea caused from watching it?

bvisness 4y ago
I love the POV style, especially paired with the lack of cuts. Gives me a better sense of everything he's doing in the kitchen - when else would you see how he keeps his fridge or spice cabinet organized?

tpmx 4y ago

In that odd food ⨯ politics genre. I'm a centrist by US standards, but he pushed my buttons hard enough to unsub after a year.

throw7 4y ago
I don't mind politics, but I couldn't take it. The guy clearly knows the answer to everything.
aerostable_slug 4y ago
When he refused to call kaffir lime by its widely accepted name because it might potentially offend someone, I had about enough. What silliness, especially when the etymology of the term remains undecided. Are we also going to stop called puttanesca dishes by their name because sex workers might be offended because it includes a profane term? Can we finally say enough to the constant quest for purity typified by a food critic penning a column on what words she won't use?[0] She won't even write "guilty" because that might trigger someone, even though I think nearly anyone would agree that an Animal Style 3x3 from In-N-Out is indeed a guilty pleasure. I just want to cook and eat good food, not play these kinds of nonsense games that cater to a certain rather noisy (and politically homogeneous) audience. [0]: "The trouble comes from the fact that the word is a cognate for a slur used by white colonists to refer to Black Africans in South Africa. Though the spirit of the word likely has very little to do with the latter context, my reasoning is the same as the reason why you’re never going to catch me casually saying or writing the word “niggardly.”" https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Words-you-ll-never-see-me-use-in-restaurant-13652564.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Words-you-ll...
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