Add the Michelin Guide to the list of things considered to be racist by higher education scholars.
In a column Tuesday at The Conversation, Emerson College Professor Tulasi Srinivas criticized the renowned restaurant review guide ahead of its upcoming review of eateries in Philadelphia and Boston.
Srinivas, who recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship, described the guide as “Eurocentric and elitist,” and suggested people should rethink their views of it as the “arbiter of culinary excellence.”
“Only in 2007, 118 years after its inception, did the guide recognize Japanese cuisine as worthy of its gaze. Soon after, stars rained down on Tokyo’s many stellar eateries,” the professor wrote.