[simpson96]

FTA:

"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."

[No name given]

Exactly!
‘What matters is excellence, and this is a hideous new wokesterly assault on excellence.’

[MinorityRepublican]

Assume nothing after 2020 is legit.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The caller identified himself as a private investigator working for the James Beard Foundation.

That's when I give him the number of my attorney.

[monkeyshine]

[Fledermaus]

Chef Ramsay is doomed then

[bitt]

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