“Blogger Blessed Rossi faces criticism and controversy over easy-to-prepare recipes”

Seven books, a television broadcast, a blog and a social channel followed by over 4.5 million followers. For twelve years the food blogger Blessed Rossi is a point of reference on the web for those who want to try their hand at easy-to-prepare culinary recipes with photos and videos, which document the creation of the dish step by step. Under the pseudonym Homemade by Benedetta, the blogger has introduced millions of people to home cooking and has entered the hearts of the public with her simplicity (and the complicity of her husband Marco and the dogs Nuvola and Cloud). But in the last few hours, Rossi has ended up at the center of criticism and controversy and she, struck by so much hatred, has let herself go to a long outburst on his Instagram page.

The attack on the web

“This is the kind of video I don’t like making, but now it’s time to set boundaries. I don’t care if I get made fun of for what I do, how I do it and what I stand for“, he began on his profile Fatto in casa da Benedetta, talking about the last ones attacks received on the web, which they procured for her “anger and disgust“. Then he talked about some articles and videos posted recently on the net that were very critical of him: “Lately the trend of ‘food criticism’ has arrived snob with offenses included’, these are columnists looking for easy clicks and creators looking for popularity and views. They say I don’t know how to cook, that I don’t respect the basic rules of cooking and I give bad information about food because I use cheap products“.

The outburst of Benedetta Rossi

At the umpteenth criticism, the blogger – born in 1972, from the Marche region – blurted out: “In twelve years of activity I have never complained, what makes me angry is that I am taken as an excuse to offend my community and entire categories of people”. Benedetta Rossi has rarely argued on social media, used to the beautiful and bad weather dictated by social fashions, but this time the offenses and the insults hit home. “Yes, I’m not a chef, I don’t have the skills to teach, I only share what is good for me in the kitchen hoping that these recipes can be useful to someone”, she said in a voice broken by tears, continuing: “It makes me angry that normal people come straighten up and treated as ignorant only because some who claim to rise to omnipotent divulgers, instead of stopping to express their ideas, launch themselves into judgments and categorizations which, in my opinion, border on discrimination“.

“Bully the people who follow me”

Fatto in casa da Benedetta explained that she has nothing against anyone who shares her technical knowledge and puts it into practice in elaborate recipes, but not if this offends her and her broad community: “Under their posts, an arena made up of comments full of insults, defamations and offenses is systematically ignited without any control”. An environment that she defined “Toxic, sleazy and disgusting“, in which his followers come “bullied“with criticism”snob” like: “Only those who buy frozen follow it”, “Come on, use vanillin and flavoring vials”, “Followed by those who buy canned tuna“. So Benedetta Rossi clarified that her recipes are what ordinary people do with normal supermarket shopping: “Those of those who have to make ends meet at the end of the month. Good for you that you can choose to buy fine grain flour ground with marble. That you can make puff pastry at home in half a day because maybe you don’t work. For some, the euros saved on everyday products at the end of the month make the difference. Think about it“. And he invited everyone to respect others, which is now rare on social media.