The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

In this, the age of the global pantry, ingredients like turmeric, tahini, and gochujang have finally shaken off their hitherto “exotic” status. But it’s white cooking personalities like Alison Roman and many of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen stars who have had viral success using them.

On the author of How the Irish Became White.