Why celebrity chef Tunde Wey wants to charge white people $100 for salt

Dixie D. Vereen/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Chef and writer Tunde Wey is selling white people $100 salt through his new venture, A Lot of Salt. Wey is known for charging white people higher prices for food to draw attention to systemic racial inequalities. "White folks set the terms of what value is, they extract value from Black and brown folks, and leave them with a f---ed up paradigm," Wey told Business Insider. Wey said that his goal is to sell a million boxes of salt and redistribute those profits to Black people around the world. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. How much are white people willing to pay for reparations? That's the question celebrity chef, writer, and provocateur Tunde Wey asks with his new venture launched August 14, A Lot of Salt, which sells premium salt to white people for $100 a box. "Now, you're prolly thinking: "$100 for salt? that is outrageous!" Lot's website reads. That's exactly the point. Wey is famous for his food, but also for the way he turns his culinary skills into political performance art. His projects use food to bring awareness to systemic racial inequities in the communities he works To keep reading about Why celebrity chef Tunde Wey wants to charge white people $100 for salt, Click on the link. Seoul, Korea
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