Ottawa pizzeria places among top 20 deep-dish pizzas in the world at international competition
An Ottawa pizzeria is being recognized as one of the top 20 deep-dish pizzas in the world.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he hires "teams of cultural appropriation specialists" to vet his recipes and make sure they are safe for publication in his cookbooks.
"Your immediate reaction is to be defensive and say, 'For the love of God, really?' And then you go, 'Well, we don't want to offend anyone,'" Oliver told the Sunday Times Culture magazine in an interview published Sunday.
46-year-old Oliver rose to fame as the presenter of the BBC cooking show "The Naked Chef" in 1999, and went on to write a series of successful cookbooks, selling more than 46 million copies worldwide, according to his publisher.
He also gained recognition for his campaign to improve children's lunchtime meals in schools, driving a nationwide push across the U.K. to make them healthier and to eliminate junk food.
In the Sunday Times interview, Oliver acknowledged that his "empire roast chicken," a chicken recipe involving coriander, turmeric, garam masala and cumin, would no longer be appropriate today.
A spokesperson for Oliver told CNN Monday that "food is all about sharing inspiration from around the world, and we're proud to work with some incredible experts to continue to learn about different cuisines and to help us deliver content that is culturally sensitive and inclusive."
The recipe for "empire roast chicken" was published in Oliver's 2011 cookbook "Jamie's Great Britain," which was accompanied by a Channel 4 TV series that showed Oliver making some of the recipes.
In the episode titled "Empire roast chicken, Bombay roasties and amazing Indian gravy," Oliver set out to celebrate what he called "our Indian love affair" by making a "full-on collision between beautiful British roast dinners and gutsy Asian spices."
Oliver also celebrated the "trade routes" that he said led to Indian spices making their way into British dishes, and which he used in his "lemon-scented, roast empire-style tandoori chicken."
Toward the end of the episode, while carving the chicken, Oliver said, "this is empire food, you can use your hands," and then raised a toast "to the empire" while clinking beers with members of his camera crew.
Although originally billed in the episode as "lemon-scented, roast empire-style tandoori chicken," the recipe has now been renamed on Oliver's website as "spiced roast chicken."
Since 2011, cultural appropriation in the kitchen has become a contentious topic, with another British chef, Gordon Ramsay, being heavily criticized for opening an "authentic Asian" restaurant in 2019 with no Asian chefs.
Described as "inspired by the drinking dens of 1930s Tokyo and the Far East," the restaurant and late-night lounge Lucky Cat was panned by food writer Angela Hui, who said on the website Eater London that it was "more seedy nightclub than Asian eating house."
Meanwhile, food website Bon Appétit released a statement in June 2020 apologizing for past recipes for "Vietnamese pho, mumbo sauce, flaky bread, and white-guy kimchi (which) all erased these recipes' origins or, worse, lampooned them."
An Ottawa pizzeria is being recognized as one of the top 20 deep-dish pizzas in the world.
Dozens of Ontarians are expressing frustration in the province’s health-care system after their family doctors either dropped them as patients or threatened to after they sought urgent care elsewhere.
It’s been a year since Nathan Wise went missing and his family is no closer to finding out what happened to him.
Amazon's paid subscription service provides free delivery for online shopping across Canada except for remote locations, the company said in an email. While customers in Iqaluit qualify for the offer, all other communities in Nunavut are excluded.
This Mother's Day Weekend, take a look at some of the most emotional movies inspired by moms.
Police are searching for a suspect in a homicide investigation after a man was slashed in downtown Toronto on Sunday.
Health Canada announced various product recalls this week, including electric adapters, armchairs, cannabis edibles and vehicle components.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin began a Cabinet shakeup on Sunday, proposing the replacement of Sergei Shoigu as defence minister as he begins his fifth term in office.
There were some scary moments for several people on a northern Ontario highway caught on video Thursday after a chain reaction following a truck fire.
A family of fifth generation farmers from Ituna, Sask. are trying to find answers after discovering several strange objects lying on their land.
A Listowel, Ont. man, drafted by the Hamilton Tigercats last week, is also getting looks from the NFL, despite only playing 27 games of football in his life.
The threat of zebra mussels has prompted the federal government to temporarily ban watercraft from a Manitoba lake popular with tourists.
A small Ajax dessert shop that recently received a glowing review from celebrity food critic Keith Lee is being forced to move after a zoning complaint was made following the social media influencer’s visit last month.
The Canada Science and Technology Museum is inviting visitors to explore their poop. A new exhibition opens at the Ottawa museum on Friday called, 'Oh Crap! Rethinking human waste.'
The Regina Police Service says it is the first in Saskatchewan and possibly Canada to implement new technology in its detention facility that will offer real-time monitoring of detainees’ vital health metrics.
Just as she had feared, a restaurant owner from eastern Quebec who visited Montreal had her SUV stolen, but says it was all thanks to the kindness of strangers on the internet — not the police — that she got it back.
The stakes have been set for a bet between Vancouver and Edmonton's mayors on who will win Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
A grieving mother is hosting a helmet drive in the hopes of protecting children on Manitoba First Nations from a similar tragedy that killed her daughter.