Last week, I wrote a post with a postulation a Black friend had proposed in conversation about why a large subset of Black and African-American people prefer their meat cooked well-done as opposed to the European/American way of cooking meat to medium/medium rare. It was a pretty controversial post, and to this effect, I’m naming this post in a bit more controversial manner (also for SEO – no one searches for “why do most,” “why do some,” or why do many black people like their meat well done”), even though it is obviously not a blanket statement that all people of any race like their meat prepared a certain way. That’s just ignorant.
I received two very well thought-out and intelligent comments, my favorite comments to date because of the care and elegance in which their sides were presented, and I wanted to showcase them in a more public forum, giving their sentiments the space they rightly deserve: [click to continue…]
