"...While there are a few features that set the SATA toaster apart from the two-slice machine you already have—a bagel and a gluten-free setting, extra-wide slots—no one is buying this thing because it’s revolutionizing the toast sector.
They’re buying it, yes, because it’s matte black and glows red and looks cool, but also because of what Gastro Ghetto stands for. Chefs Jon Gray, Lester Walker, and Pierre Serrao work at the intersection of activism, design, and community empowerment.
They bill themselves as the “Black Power kitchen of tomorrow,” and they’re just as at home talking about the benefits of a mostly plant-based diet as they are about systems of oppression.
Come for the merch drops and sexed up waffle irons, stay for the discourse about red-lining, the prison-industrial complex, and food as a liberatory tool.
...Ghetto Gastro is fighting to dismantle the systemic marginalization of an historically oppressed community, and if that’s not some classic Magneto behavior, I don’t know what is...Read all.
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