75 – A Recipe for Disaster: Thug Kitchen and Cultural Appropriation

Mutha-F'in cranberries, what about a little broccoli for that ass? These are just a few of the gems that the blog turned cookbook Thug Kitchen drops in their foray into a culinary "gangsta vernacular"--and people everywhere have been eating up every word, until it was discovered that the initially anonymous bloggers were white. Is this just a good lesson in strategic marketing or has culinary blackface become our new normal? Guest, writer and communications strategist, Maya K. Francis .