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THE GREAT CULINARY HEIST IS HERE. While working-class immigrants fight for survival, Manhattan’s elite are GENTRIFYING the beloved Jamaican patty into a $20 STATUS SYMBOL. At the center of this scandal is Bar Kabawa, an East Village hotspot where chef Paul Carmichael is charging A FORTUNE for what was once a humble, affordable staple. This isn’t food—it’s a CRIMINAL MARKUP.

These so-called “fancy patties,” stuffed with foie gras and bone marrow, are a SLAP IN THE FACE to the Caribbean communities who brought this dish to New York. Their contributions were ignored for DECADES, only to be PLUNDERED and sold back to them at obscene prices. This is cultural appropriation at its most BRAZEN, a predatory trend where authenticity is slaughtered for Instagram clout and the approval of food critics. The patty, a symbol of diaspora and resilience, has been taken hostage by a chef-driven empire seeking to PROFIT off a struggle it never shared.

This grotesque elevation reveals a disturbing truth: in today’s New York, food only gains “value” when it is stripped from its roots, gilded, and sold to the wealthy. The real patty—the warm, neon-yellow beacon from a corner store—offered sustenance and soul. The $20 counterfeit offers only the hollow validation of a luxury purchase. As the city erases its own history one “elevated” bite at a time, we must ask: when the trend dies, will anything of the real culture remain, or will it all be consumed by the relentless appetite of capital? The final course of this feast is the bitter taste of a city devouring itself.