ahmed ali akbar
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food reporter @chicagotribune 🥭 james beard award winning writer | hosted podcasts: generation m, radiolingo, @seesomething
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🍿This week, I start a new job as food reporter at the
@chicagotribune
! 🥭
It's true: after five years of freelancing in audio and food journalism, I've finally returned to full-time...and now I'm in print!
The only thing I won't be writing food-wise is reviews.
Send me tips!
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Shazam but for someone’s face at a party whose name you should know
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transparent colored case with visible wiring was absolutely the coolest goddamn design moment in the evolution of electronics during my life
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Was very revealing to me in my teens that Keira Knightly had a whole A-list movie career after co-starring in Bend it Like Beckham while the unbelievably charismatic lead Parminder Nagra never really had the same chance to lead a blockbuster.
Currently wondering why Lana Condor hasn’t received any major work in Hollywood yet after carrying the
#ToAllTheBoys
trilogy on her back with her charm and charisma, while Noah Centineo has been tied to BLACK ADAM, HE-MAN, the “GameStop” movie, etc etc etc 🤔
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The whole internet loves Bon Appetit, a cute test kitchen that makes food! *3 years later* We regret to inform you the test kitchen is racist. *1 year* The whole internet loves Test Kitchen, the exposè exploring racism at BA! *2 days* We regret to inform you the exposè is racist
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the baby having a hijab on in the womb is actually KILLING me lmaoooo
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I love wearing white shirts, but I also like turmeric and hot sauce and have no spatial reasoning
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every single photo of jeff goldblum in his 60s is completely unfair. no one should be allowed to age this well.
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bts twitter is becoming monoculture and i feel myself being fed into its maw. in like two months my cover photo will be of jimin and i will be embroiled in at least three wars on stan twitter
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LOVING this American cheese curry! authentic western spices like salt butter & pepper🤤🧀can't wait to visit texas with my white friends! ✈️🏃🏽
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@bellahadid
at the protest for Palestine in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn today (📷:
@zainashrafkhan
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White kids walking into your immigrant parents’ home with shoes on like:
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Indian diaspora needs to be speaking out against Modi. It’s shocking how much unchecked Hindu Nationalism there is, without critical comparison to white supremacy. People speak favorably of the Kashmir move as if it’s not a potential prelude to ethnic cleansing and settlements.
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hello white people these two items are not pronounced the same way. i am sorry we spelled it "lassi" instead of "lussi" but please, you have to stop, i am begging you.
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he's gonna still watch it and tweet back at literally every joke made about him
I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!
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Personally The character EYE am obsessed with on the Bear is tender sweet cakeman Marcus
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i fucking love being from the midwest. i can tell the most basic anecdote from my childhood, like how i grew up eating chocolate chip bagels with chocolate chip cream cheese, and three new yorkers will die immediately
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In my reporting, free meals for those who can’t afford it is a relatively common, understated policy of Pakistani restaurants in NYC/NJ. At one spot, my cousin forgot to pay. He came back, asked why they didn’t charge. The gent said he didn’t want to assume he could afford.
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I watched Never Have I Ever and enjoyed it. But i was pretty troubled that they wrote in anti-Muslim bias (and Modi support!) into the mom's character for an episode and had no Muslim character's speak back? The Hindu woman even said she regretted marrying a Muslim! Pretty tense.
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I pray weekly at ICNYU and for nearly two years, since the Muslim ban, about a half dozen folks from a Jewish community have stood outside our jumah prayers at NYU in solidarity.
I knew today they’d be there in a huge show of support because they’ve been there every. damn. week.
A stunning portrayal of solidarity where many have gathered outside the Islamic Center of NYU wishing worshipers words of support and love. Many Muslims are walking in with tears, overwhelmed by the kindness.
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im finally, actually, a real life example of
@radbrowndads
, thanks to salimah, baby aziza, and allah 🧿🧿
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when I'm sad, i remember my Muslim friend's boyfriend asking why she always says "enchilada" on the phone w her parents
it was INSHALLAH
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Please appreciate this PSA I found at a video game tournament
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Hindutva Twitter trying to cancel Genghis Khan (???) today led to some incredibly good and dry replies.
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Obsessed with what they’re doing with Alexander Skarsgård’s character on Succession. He’s pathetic AND scary
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me @ an american wedding: can u explain all the traditions to me? what's with all the white what does it symbolize also why throw flowers
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im sorry but arabicized english font is the comic sans of my world
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My Muslim ass always asks my coworkers and peers if they wanna get ice cream after an event because I hate bars
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WW84 is that type of white feminist movie where a white man from Jim Crow-era segregation is the best man humanity has ever known but the Arab men are fanatic bigots desiring a border wall and Latino men are wife beaters & megalomonics. I’m stunned at how racist it was.
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looking thru some of my old posts and i was just reminded of the best gif of all time
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two tacos are not enough but three are too much. why haven’t scientists solved the problem.
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me at an american wedding part 4: *arrives 2 hours late* how is this over already this is bullshit
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in urdu, we don't say "i love you" we say "log kya kahangay" and i think thats beautiful
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Muslims, 2016: can you close Guantanamo like you promised
Obama: Hey! So glad you reached out. I’m actually at capacity/helping someone who’s in crisis/dealing with sum personal stuff right now & I dont think I can hold appropriate space for you. Could we connect [later date]?
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Real talk: thank you to Eric & Brittany for speaking out. Thank you to all the nonwhite folks at BA who have had to air the trauma of working in media over & over again. This shit is extremely hard and I believe building collective power across race, gender, and ALSO class is key
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me @ american wedding 12: it's wonderful to be surrounded by debbie's family
her aunt: it's beautiful debbie has colored friends
me: what
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these are truly the most upsetting microwave presets i have seen in my life
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From TV, you’d think desi families are all judgmental and unemotional when a lot of them are like this family who cheer on their gentle sweet abu for growing the newest member of their family, a baby cantaloupe
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@GeeDee215
i had this roommate who would binge eat all my nutella and bread. and then get really apologetic and buy me another nutella and loaf of bread. and then binge that again. and then apologize. i would hide it in my room but he'd sneak in and ate it again. and then apologize, again.
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Twitter Blue is really a great deal tbh. For $8, you can make an insulin company lose $20 billion dollars market cap in a day. Pretty much the most valuable subscription in the history of the internet.
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My first time at Quesabirria Jalisco, I asked Ventura Orozco why his tacos were halal.
He answered with a moving story bout how a Palestinian restaurant took him in when he was at his lowest & how making his own shop halal led him to success.
Read here:
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me @ an american wedding part 10: *arrives 20 min late* where are all the guests
debbie: this is everyone
me: there are 11 people here
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Yes she was on ER, but remember George Clooney was also on ER. His material and cultural success was completely transformed by starring in Films. He, like Nagra, was older at the time. There is a sexism & racism baked in the replies here that suggest TV was enough opportunity
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we talk about mangoes like white ladies talk about wine
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I like Allison Roman and Ottolenghi & rely on them, but this comment kind of reveals my suspicion with the fanbase around them—if you disconnect techniques from their cultural background, the usage of spices seem precious for no reason. Also, lol at nostalgic for "salt & pepper"
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With the Priyanka/Nick wedding, probably good time to revive this thread
me @ an american wedding: can u explain all the traditions to me? what's with all the white what does it symbolize also why throw flowers
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me at an american wedding part 6: lelelelelelelelelelele
father of the bride: hello yes fbi, i saw something i am now saying something
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I was paid $600 for a 800 word essay by Bon Appetit. So I'm livid that Hawa Hassan's ambitious food video content was only paid $400 for each of her 3 videos.
Media institutions need us more than we need them. It's shameful how they take advantage, specifically of black folks.
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me @ an american wedding cont'd: ok so why does the dad give away the daughter does that mean like he owns u and u didnt choose this
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lmao muslim protest sign game is getting way 2 good @ the yemeni business boycott
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I thought these were related ads about a divorce cage match
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Biden thinks Trump is the first white supremacist president. Twelve of our presidents owned slaves.
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yes the United States is the only Big Country
The United States is pretty much impossible to explain to anyone on other continents.
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me @ an american wedding part 5: so what's the deal with the cake cutting, like why do only the couple feed each other where are the aunties
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Rihanna’s mom has an Instagram and it’s just WhatsApp Bible verses and pictures of her babies. Peak immigrant auntie. Her commitment to her aesthetic is unmatched.
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im not the kind of person to post something on reddit on twitter, but this is just too good not to share (credit /r/pakistan)
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me @ an american wedding 22: so where are ur cousins? i met ur college friends already
debbie: i didn't invite them
me: um excuse me whatT
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me @ an american wedding part 3: ok wow thats crazy in my culture we wear colors it's so weird you only wear black and white so weird wow
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me @ american wedding 14: i love learning about all your beautiful traditional ceremonies, like the reengh exkange. am i saying that right?
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so! lassi 101!
lassi is rhymes with ‘fussy,’ not with celebrity dog name (credit
@nycplayer
). the ‘s’ comes at end of the first syllable as well as the beginning of second. take a listen, class!
with your help, we can kill lassie in a generation. proud of all my eager students
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me @ an american wedding 20: so where's the chai
debbie: uh we have wine?
me: what kind of fucking wedding doesn't have chai
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If you're a food blogger, here's some advice:
Write your entire life-story before the recipe. I want multiple subheadings. 100% pure stream-of-consciousness. An hour read so I can build up an appetite. I must know every family member. I want to feel rage, joy, & confusion.
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She didn’t even get the chance. Because the roles were not there.
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me @ an american wedding 11:
walter: dude. it'd mean so much for you to be a groomsman
me: what's that also whose shoes do i need to steal
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Last week I got an email from Sruthi about Reply All’s Test Kitchen series. I had been avoiding listening but once I did I felt gaslit. The truth is RA and specifically PJ and Sruthi contributed to a near identical toxic dynamic at Gimlet. This will be a longer thread, apologies.
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My desi novel: ‘The chai was /garam/ like the Balochi desert, the mangoes plump, dancing bhangra seductively on my plate. As we dug in, Baba scolded me conservatively, unlike the white parents in our suburb. I was sad, oppressed. When would I be free? I prayed to my god, Allah.’
writing my Latino novel: "We fled late in the night, or /la noche/ as Mami calls it. I'm always embarrassed when Mami says shit like that, but I forgive her because she's one of eleven kids and is from /el barrio./ Anyway it was late at night, and Yolanda Saldivar was chasing us-
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me @ a american wedding 16: so is it traditional for the dancing to be so awkward? is there some symbolism because this is just so new to me
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diaspora twitter: when i was growing up, the kids at school mocked how my lunch smelled. now they post photos of their indian food on instagram. hands off my food, colonizer! you could never make it like us.
the homeland: what if we put mangoes on pizza and nutella in samosas
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me doing a toast @ an american wedding 18: how does this ritual work? this is my first white wedding. oh? your culture is so plain i love it
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Lost my ID a week ago in a place it should not have been lost. Received it in the mail today with a very cute letter. There are good people in the world.
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reporter to drake: seriously though, are you ACTUALLY in love with nicki?
drake:
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me at an american wedding part 8: no i will not tell the dj to play punjabi mc, debbie.
*mundiyan to bach ke comes on*
me: OHOI BRRAP BRAP
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guys, the responses im getting to this tweet are truly sending me
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CDC extends length of time immigrant moms can leave leftovers on the countertop with no adverse health effects, from overnight to a full 36 hours
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Pakistani mangos were approved for import in 2011. But still, anytime I post a haul, I get messages: “how the hell did you get those?”
The answer involves irradiation, WhatsApp, and plenty of risk For
@eater
, the conclusion of three years of reporting:
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when you google "muslim authors," the first person who shows up is rumi.
the picture is of leo decaprio in a turban.
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On a side note, I met Eric's The Nod co-host
@bmluse
around the time I was laid off from BuzzFeed's audio department — the two of them have absolutely been doing the work over the years not only to diversify and share power, but also to give guidance in a fucked-up industry.
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The Black Panther film's messages around imperialism are pretty muddled at times, but I did think it was funny that people on Twitter said it portrayed the CIA as heroes when the film basically said the USA would be the worst country in the world to get access to Vibranium.
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me at an american wedding part 7: can you buy me a dress from macy's i just love all the beautiful colors and fabrics you guys wear
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ramadan mubarak my friends. im already loopy at sehri and it’s only day one . game of thrones is now fan fiction. share your power. make duah. chicken is the worst (halal) meat. ameen.
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I gasped when I read about that stabbing at the rabbi’s house. This trend of attacking Jews & Muslims on holy days is absolutely vile. Antisemitism, antimuslim bias, anti blackness all go together and we have to stand consistently together for justice and against white supremacy
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My dad went grocery shopping and I asked him to bring back Cheerios, yeast, and chicken. Here’s what he came back with. Peak dad or shortages?
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I pray for freedom and justice for the Palestinian people. Eid Mubarak and may we have a better tomorrow
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I’m begging you to stop hyping up Muji. They’ve brazenly advertised for years that they use cotton from Xinjiang; human rights activists have claimed Uyghur Muslims produce it in forced labor camps and Xinjiang is the global center of China’s ongoing genocide.
As H&M and other global clothing brands walk a fine line on Xinjiang, Japanese chain Muji is taking a different approach altogether—it says it uses Xinjiang cotton and doesn’t see a problem with advertising that fact.
@megumifujikawa
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i like how every desi immigrant knows "jess, i'm irish"
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My favorite East Coast-ism is when I’m like ‘the best pizza we had in my hometown was Dominoes’ and they all are compelled by the spirit of LaGuardia to say ‘DOMINOS ISNT PIZZA.’ tf was i eating then
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14 addendum:
debbie: it's pronounced ring exchange and also i wouldn't call it "traditional"
me: rain exchang
debbie: sure close enough
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Just excused myself from a dinner with friends and announced I have to make my way to the pick up from my mango dealer lmao. My life is so dumb
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@ImaniAmrani
@ridak96
I think its a lovely photo, but I am disturbed by the # of anonymous photos of muslims used to endorse a liberal view of american acceptance
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