In this episode of Close To Home, Michelle sits down with J.J. Johnson, the James Beard award-winning chef of Henry at Life …
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Cooking the Lost History of Pan African Cuisine with Japanese Breakfast & JJ Johnson | Close to Home
In this episode of Close To Home, Michelle sits down with J.J. Johnson, the James Beard award-winning chef of Henry at Life …
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My mans keeps contradicting himself though
Peri Peri sauce is NOT from Ghana, not sure where he got that. Peri Peri is from southern Africa, either Mozambique or Angola.
Also, I'm annoyed that she mentioned Sri Lanka and Nepal as countries which use roti but not Pakistan. Plus roti is also popular across Southeast Asia.
love what they were saying about fusion. well done!
I thought they were black holes but it was only his nose
Sorry NOT dhal puri
I love how these guys shes interviewing are not flipping out and trying to hit on her! How are they doing that?!
This dude actually just said Piri piri comes from Ghana 🤦🏻♂️ it’s from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Angola
Love this. I'm facinated by history in all forms and this was an exceptional example of food being an educational vessel.
DAL PURI is not pronounced Dal PARI. Its pronounced Dal Poori. Its a 100% Indian word so please pronounce it correctly <3 Puri means the roti and Dal is the lentils. And that Roti looked really undercooked =(
Nice!
Hail out to trinidad roti and dhalpuri. Best ever. 🥰🥰
This series is so fucking legit. Period. PLEASE DO MORE.
As a black man and a chef you make me proud.
"forced expulsion from the land of Israel" lmfaoooo read a history book wtf
It used to be fusion, when the cultures first merged or developed their food staples/styles/etc. It's not insulting to acknowledge food cultures fusing together.
this chef is a professor. He's much deeper than just food he creates.
Yessir! Roti is awesome. You can eat it with cheese, melted butter, curry (mainly), etc. Dhal Puri is awesome too.
Lol man wtf. Every other video discussing food history doesn't even make mention of the term "cultural appropriation" but as soon as the people are black, all of a sudden, we have to talk about it. If there's ever been a concept more phony and purposefully divisive, it's Cultural Appropriation. Sharing food is the first and largest step in understanding culture. Why sully that with politics?
Man I love them all, collard greens, swish chard, kale, wild cabbage, mustard greens, all of the choys (bok, yau, gai) , jai lan, pea shoots…I love all that shit. I try not to focus my likes on one of them because I'm on a budget and we eat whichever one is the cheapest. There are some greens that I haven't tried yet because their the ones in the Asian Grocery store that don't have a phonetic translation attached but one of these days I'mah download an app for that.
As a fan of many African cuisines, I think it is unhelpful to refer to "Pan-African" cuisine. That is no more accurate than "Asian Cuisine" or "European Cuisine." Cultural Appropriation in cuisine?! Don't be absurd. Corn in southern Africa or Northern Italy. Potatoes in Russia. Chile in China or India. Come on.
cultural appropriation = western medicine- dont use it. use your own nature stuff, im sure its just as good. All POC should stick to it.
In Malaysia the roti is the most popular bread and so well known in every part of the country 😂😂. It gets all the street cred here
We simply have to talk about the African Diaspora!!!
I didn't even notice that this was Michelle and I was like
Oh
It's Japanese breakfast
Lol
Hey, stop regurgitating diaspora every video like most Munchies viewers are going to understand that sort of dialect.
Damn Chris Gotti lost some weight!!
A profesional chef should stop talking about "street cred" 🤦🏽♂️ IMHO
Fusion…is a "cronut" lol so true
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that peanut udon dish looks a lot like a taiwanese version of dan dan mien
Growing up in a white area, i had to fight to go over the African and black American history that teachers loved to skip over.
Caribbean food is fusion food dumbass
u are using asian pear…. a mangos and all the fucking spices u use come form south east asia… this is some sjw bull crap
my Caribbean food is heavily influenced my indian food. thats y its called west indian food and india is east indian food. how the fuck do u know what cuisine came from who. no history major refers to slavery at the "african diaspora" mainly cause war lords were selling slaves….the african slave trade was 2000+ old at the time. wtf are u guys talking about
I love Munchies and Japanese Breakfast. I feel like I've found a singularity of interest.
Gastro-anthropology … well cool!