![]() ![]() We’re serious about being advocates for change and that starts with us. These changes are underway but will take a little while longer while we finish the work. In that spirit, we will change the name of our company and website discontinue the use of Thug Kitchen as the title of all our previous cookbooks and closely re-evaluate the content of each book. We want our body of work to reflect inclusivity and empathy. Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as Fck by Bad Manners: Used Fast and reliable. Our endgame is to widen the table in our country’s conversation around food and add more chairs. That’s fucked up and not at all what we want to stand for. We realize, however, that whatever our original intention, our use of it reflected our privilege and ignored the reality that the word is assigned to black people in an attempt to dehumanize them. Over the years, as our critics pointed out the racist connotations of two white people using the word “thug,” we tried to contextualize it by talking about our backgrounds and our beliefs. The brand also said it will discontinue the use of Thug Kitchen as the title of its previous cookbooks and ‘closely re-evaluate’ the content.When we first launched Thug Kitchen in 2012, we wanted our name to signal our brand’s grit in the otherwise polished and elitist food scene. That’s f****d up and not at all what we want to stand for. “We realize, however, that whatever our original intention, our use of it reflected our privilege and ignored the reality that the word is assigned to black people in an attempt to dehumanize them. In an online statement, Bad Manners said: “Over the years, as our critics pointed out the racist connotations of two white people using the word ‘thug’ we tried to contextualize it by talking about our backgrounds and our beliefs. “And it isn’t just breaking some unwritten codes governing race and language, either.” ‘We apologize’ Buy Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as Fck (Bad Manners) by Kitchen, Thug (ISBN: 9780751562309) from Amazons Book Store. From the duo behind the New York Times bestseller Bad Manners: The Official Cookbook come healthy crowd-pleasing recipes to entertain with attitude (previously published as Thug Kitchen Party Grub: For Social Motherfckers). The creators of the New York Times bestselling cookbook series Bad Manners are back to deliver you the not-so-gentle but always hilarious shove you need to take the leap into healthy eating (previously published as Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as Fck). In an Op-Ed for CNN back in 2014, Terry wrote: “Whites masking in African-American street vernacular for their amusement and profit isn’t just the tired trope of cultural exploitation, which has a rich tradition going back beyond the bete noires of the moment, Macklemore and Iggy Azalea, past Vanilla Ice and Tarantino, and even beyond Madonna, Elvis and the minstrel shows of the late 19th century that first innovated modern American blackface spectacles. Others have dubbed the the company of ‘digital blackfacing’ for using the word ‘thug’. The brand, created by Matt Holloway and Michelle Davis, has come under scrutiny in the past, with vegan chef Bryant Terry saying the duo’s captions ‘rely heavily on phrases from black rap lyrics, stand-up routines, and films’. ![]() Popular cooking site Thug Kitchen has announced it will change its name to Bad Manners following accusations of ‘digital blackface’. ![]()
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