Orlando Enrique Fiol's Racism is Exposed Again.

Orlando The Racist wrote:

What does that have to do with my comment about white people wanting to
see other white folks cooking foreign food?

Is that your way of saying that you'd rather see Mexican people cooking in
every restaurant you patronize? You can't speak for other people, only for
yourself, and what you wrote there is VERY telling, racist.


What if there's a better Mexican chef in Chicago who lacks the capital or
connections to open a restaurant? Does that mean his cooking is
automatically inferior?

Talent will out. If there were a better Mexican chef in Chicago, there's NO
WAY nobody would know about it. Better than Rick Bayless? Venture
capitalists would be FIST-FIGHTING IN THE STREET to provide money for a
restaurant of that caliber, regardless of the ethnicity of the chef! What
you fail to realize because your racism blinds you to it is that people who
have money to invest care more about making money than they do about the
race of the person making money for them. Only the most dyed-in-the-wool
racist would give even a millisecond of consideration before choosing to
support such a venture. Of course, YOU would never support a white chef, so it's just as well you're not an investor.


That is both stupid and easily proven wrong: José Andrés has a Spanish
name and a foreign accent, and he has had great success in spreading
Spanish cuisine here.

Do you really not understand that white Americans have far more pleasant
associations with romantic Spain than dirty, stinky, greasy, politically
volatile but sexually tempting Latin-America?

YOU SAID that it was the Spanish name and accent which was off-putting. Your
EXACT WORDS were "because of a Spanish name and foreign accent." I
*completely* refuted that stupidity, so now you're trying to weasel out by
trashing Latin-American culture. Not buying your shifting standards, racist.


Find me even one credible mexican culinary expert who claims in writing
that Rick Bayless leaves all mexican chefs in the dust. I'm waiting.

Find me "one credible mexican culinary expert," racist. I'm waiting. Have
you personally ever even BEEN to Mexico? Or are you just one of those
"homeland" posers with a sum total of ZERO first-hand experience?


It's an inspiration; a real American success story.

Based on unsupported allegations of culinary superiority measured outside
the native culture by people lacking sufficient credentials and intimate
familiarity with that culture.

It's supported by the exceptional fame and fortune showered on Rick Bayless
for the quality of his cuisine! What better support could there possibly be,
racist?


The racism I see is YOUR repeated allegations that Bayless can't possibly
cook Mexican food as well as a Mexican. Thousands of people who have
eaten at Bayless's restaurants say that you are wrong.

Thousands of Mexican people? Thousands of upper-class Mexican people who
would have grown up with the sort of "refined" food Bayless cooks?

Where did *I* say "thousands of Mexicans"? Are you now going to compound
your racism and state that only Mexicans are capable of enjoying Mexican
food? How blatant can you GET?


I have no objection at all to Marcus Samuelsson (a black man from
Ethiopia) and his outstanding success in Scandinavian cooking. I don't go
around saying that he doesn't deserve his wealth and his accolades. I
don't say that he's stealing from the Scandinavian culture. But YOU would
say such a thing, wouldn't you, because you are an unmitigated racist!

Are you really that dense? Samuelsson grew up in Scandinavia, (I can't
remember whether Norway or Sweden); he has the accent to prove it. He's
not some random Ethiopian who decided to go to Norway on a Study Abroad
program, pick up some culinary tips and bring them home to make a boatload
of money.

But according to YOU, what matters is ethnicity. That's why you keep harping
on Rick Bayless's race, isn't it? If ethnicity doesn't matter, then you have
absolutely no grounds to form an argument here, and you should embrace and
applaud the accomplishments of Rick Bayless, like so many Americans have.


The fact that those restaurants don't enjoy the success of the
restaurants Bayless owns is not because Bayless is white, it's because
BAYLESS COOKS BETTER FOOD.

No. It's because many Latino-owned restaurants are not located in
fashionable parts of town. They don't always get the writeups in swanky
foody publications that Bayless gets. Their chefs are not invited to do
PBS series, all of which adds up to the unfortunate fact that few
Latino-owned restaurants have managed to attract a national buzz.
Latin-America is full of fascinating chefs cooking fabulously inventive
food, most of which escapes the Eurocentric radar for racist reasons.

The only racist here is YOU. You dismiss the accomplishments of someone who
has gained success through BEATING MEXICANS AT THEIR OWN GAME, simply
because he is white. Envy, bitterness, and racist hatred run through your
every post here. PBS has *proven* that they are not racist, yet you express
bitterness that a white man appears on PBS cooking Mexican food. Well, he
was BETTER than the other candidates, wasn't he? Bayless doesn't get those
swanky writeups because he's white, he gets them because he is a better cook
than his competition.


Actually, Bayless claims that Mexicans take their families to his
restaurants on special occasions.

Here's a newsflash for you: I'd be willing to hazard a guess that there are
Polish families who patronize his restaurants on special occasions. Probably
a bunch of those damn white Finns, too, how I know you hate them. Maybe even
some of those Anglos, oh, the Anglos are the WORST, aren't they? You want to
gut them all with a fishing knife, you hate them so much! You fucking
racist, you make me sick.


Great! Here comes preppy, white hipster making his living cooking
supposedly refined Mexican food that Mexican immigrants can only afford to
eat on special occasions. What's wrong with that picture? I would feel the
same way about an Irish Catholic or a Jew cooking royal Mughlai Indian
cuisine that Bangladeshi or Panjaabi familes could barely afford to eat.
Something's wrong with that picture, and it has nothing to do with f re
enterprise or good old American success; it has to do with cruel
appropriation.

There's NOTHING wrong with that picture. It's a restaurant. If its prices
were too high it would go out of business. Do you think things would be
better if Bayless put up a big sign which said "Half-Price Appetizers With
Every Mexican"? Have you NO CONCEPT AT ALL about anti-discrimination laws?

Bob

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