Posted on 06/05/2023 3:47:31 PM PDT by simpson96
The James Beard awards are considered the Oscars of the foodie world, and given that they are judged by journalists instead of other chefs, that has opened the door to political correctness taking precedence over how the food tastes.
(snip)
According to the New York Times:
The chef Sam Fore received an ominous voice mail message this month from an unknown number. The caller identified himself as a private investigator working for the James Beard Foundation. Later that day, Ms. Fore found herself on a Zoom call, answering questions from him and another man.
“They said to me, ‘We have an anonymous complaint we have to ask you about,’” she said.
Ms. Fore is a finalist in the James Beard awards, which for nearly three decades have been considered the most prestigious culinary honors in the United States, the so-called “Oscars of the food world.”
In what she called “an interrogation,” the investigators asked her about social media posts she had made on both private and public accounts. Someone had sent them to the foundation through an anonymous tip line on its website.
The men told Ms. Fore that the posts potentially violated the organization’s code of ethics — specifically that they amounted to “targeted harassment” and “bullying.”
“I realize that my [diversity] presence is a good look for Beard, but I cooked my way across the country to get to this level,” she said. “Now all I’ve done can be dismissed because someone on the internet called me a bully?”
Which sounds pretty creepy. The personalities of the chefs are now being investigated, by actual private investigators, instead of the actual food.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"The Times notes that the Foundation's revenues went from $5 million in 2010 to $18 million in 2020, which pretty well says 'corporate' all over it. With corporatization comes corporate values, including the need for cookie-cutter corporate men with just the right uniform social attitudes, which doesn't favor the wild innovators who often become the top chefs. Now that they have gone that way, the only thing the audience will ask about this awards ceremony today is whether the chef who won the award got it because he was a nice guy or whether he got it because he was really the best cook.
If the Beard Foundation absolutely wanted to stick with this, they ought to put out a chef with the best personality award instead of contaminate the cuisine awards by forcing chefs to pass some kind of niceness muster.
What matters is excellence, and this is a hideous new wokesterly assault on excellence."
Exactly!
‘What matters is excellence, and this is a hideous new wokesterly assault on excellence.’
Assume nothing after 2020 is legit.
Chef Ramsay is doomed then
Good point and accurate! Ramsey is fried
p
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.