Ton Lutton Brown will not make many friends online this week.
On Monday, the celebrity chef, author and one-time food network host plunged himself into the hot water on Twitter with a miscalculated post about his tidy inclination – and days later, he tied things up with a more tweeted Holocaust couple.
Brown seems to have removed all offensive posts and apologized for the Holocaust tweets. But at this stage the controversy has grown somewhat, dredging up troubling comments made (and allegedly made) by the chef in the past. At this point he is ready to join Bon appetit And Alison Roman is on the culinary-world A-listers list to disappoint her fans in 2020.
Things started to heat up earlier this week when Brown tweeted, “I’ve voted Republicans most of my life. I consider myself Rs. I guess there are still ‘very nice’ people on both sides of the wing but… if #GP. We have words if leaders don’t get a collective nose out of that man’s ass. ”
Brown later clarified that he had voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this election cycle, as well as Democratic Senate candidates Rafael Warnock and John Osoff in Georgia’s home state. Still, his tweet acknowledges that the unrest we’ve seen in the last four years – now declared by the President of the United States – is being ignored by the regime, while creating the basis for a public uprising. Many were quick to tell Brown that such thinking ignores the radical and medieval brutality that has plagued GOPs for decades, especially the last decade or so.
People told Brown a lot – and one fan who said he was “disappointed”, the chef replied, “Honestly, you have no right to be disappointed in me. Nothing. I have used my own platform to speak my mind. You may dislike me, of course but to say despair in me … should be reserved for bad dishes. ”
But media writer Evan DeSimon said in his own response, “When you come into politics it will have a direct impact on people’s lives. You can’t just say do justice to your work and your politics.”
Anyway, things got worse after a day when Brown decided to move on with some Holocaust references to things: “So, when they move us to camp, do you think they’ll let us choose the state?” He wrote on Tuesday. “I’m going to ask Kansas because the sky over the wheat is so gorgeous.”
“Do you think camp uniforms will be as striped as on A Schwitz, or plaids will be prevalent?” He then added. When one man said his uniform would depend on how rich he was, Brown replied that he had “no gold rush.” (The Nazis removed gold teeth and fillings from Jews who had been killed in concentration camps.)
The next day, after a second flood of criticism, Brown issued a statement: “I apologize for the flippant reference to the Holocaust in my tweet last night,” he wrote. “It was not a reference I made for a humorous effect, but to show how scared I was for our country. It was a very poor use of judgment and poor taste. ”
For this reader, it’s hard to see how that particular “gold fillings” comment was meant to convey a sense of fear, but if he says …
But social media users also began to share reports and allegations over the years – most notably, a 2011 blog post written by a fan named David Reinstrom who said he had traveled hundreds of miles to see Brown for the benefit of a local library in Iowa. Find out, as he said, “ton lton brown is a shock.”
Ryanstrom wrote that he kept a book for the audience, Brown said, “So, well – this book is from the South, from where I am, and found some things in it that would probably be kind of foreign and exotic. You Iowans.” , Rainstrom said, Brown told the audience, “Look! A real living Negro! When the audience fell into awkward silence, he alleged, “Okay. Remind me not to do African-American jokes in Iowa. ”
Brown seemed to be trying to mock Iowa’s uniform whiteness, Rainstrom acknowledged – but his alleged use of the word “Negro” is the best.
At another point, Rainstrom added, Brown was bantering in the audience with a young girl and her family when he told the child, “If the person next to you is yours Others Dad, I am Wrong State (emphasizes Reinstrom.)
The representative for Brown did not immediately respond to a request from the Daily Beast for comment.
“Turning the page, Rainstrom said, Brown told the audience, “Look! A real living Negro! When the audience fell into awkward silence, he alleged, “Okay. Remind me not to do African-American jokes in Iowa. ””
Brown also has a special dislike for fat people, whose size he has always reduced to a simple matter of diet, ignoring all other factors that can contribute to a person’s body size.
Brown said in 2008 East Bay Times, “I’ve struggled with weight all my life, and probably always will. But I was on my latest book tour when I was shocked by the number of overweight families. People would come up to me and say, ‘Oh, we like the food network.’ Well, no (explosive); Do you eat tv You only have four and you can’t ride in the elevator at once. I would probably annoy fat people, but as a culture we should be ashamed. It’s ‘… not healthy.’
Brown said whether obesity is a disease This New York Times In 2015, “Obesity is not a disease. Can it be caused by diseases in some rare cases? Yes, but secondly our society starts thinking that turning Big Max on our face is a disease then we have done, we have a As a culture. ”
What can we say? ... at least we still have Ina Garten?
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