Kalyani Saxena

People appreciate food from other cuisines and they share videos of them making that recipe from that cuisine.

This is one more person from TikTok.

Their username is at beefy boy.

Oh, that's me.

Except this creator identified themselves as a Korean who was raised in America.

Never mind.

It's not me.

I have plenty of thoughts about this, but I wanted to give you a chance if there's something that you're thinking about here in all this.

It's this tricky thing where it's like you want people to be able to explore the world and to do that in a way that like they can feel safe doing that.

And at the same time, you want people to educate themselves about the world that they're in.

And in some ways, like that's the first step of the process of

I love cooking.

I cook a lot of Asian food.

I cook a lot of Mexican food.

I make dumplings.

I do all those things.

And I think over time, I've tried to be conscious of where I'm learning about that stuff.

and who I'm learning from.

And in the beginning I wasn't learning from, you know, I wasn't actually learning from the source, if that makes sense.

I was learning from these other places where, where I experienced it as a, you know, whatever, as a, uh, you know, white dude living in Connecticut or whatever, you know what I mean?