Some of this stuff is just borderline criminal and done obviously in bad faith: Remember “Social media platforms are chaotic, nefarious and warp our values and sense of reason. It’s been said and proved many times over. The systems privilege outrage over any other response, so hate-watching something gives it just as much power as watching it out of love. Algorithms purposefully manipulate our emotions.
This, I’m sorry to say, is why I am currently holding back on fully responding to the apparent affront to Mexican food that is “Mexican Week” on the Netflix show “The Great British Bake Off.” The episode became available in North America on Friday, but clips on social media all week have shown unforgivable butchering of Mexican. I almost can’t look. But if trends persist, the truth is, I won’t be able to hold out for long.Here are other don’t-miss stories that came across our plate this week.
— Sylvia Wu moved from China to the United States before World War II and by 1959, horrified by the faux-Cantonese dishes she found normalized in Los Angeles, decided to open Madame Wu’s Garden restaurant in Santa Monica. For decades, she served smartly dressed Hollywood A-listers. “Everybody in this town knows Madame Wu,” Merv Griffin once told The Times. Shevideo series on dumplings
, Episode 4 might be the best spot yet to do it. She goes to Koreatown to sample mandu at Pao Jao Dumpling House, CHD Mandu and Myung In.