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This is so absurd to me how can anyone disallow painting and drilling into walls of an apartment, I'm very glad that tenancy laws here basically say that if you rent a place you can do whatever you want with it, as long as reasonably it's restore-able.
For a lot of the younger folks in the EU if your rental contract tells you you can't do something it's probably bullshit. And even if it isn't at worst you'll lose your deposit.
Some US rental contracts even regulate what spices you can cook with, which is arguably something that could be akin to racism since its squarely aimed at certain cultures foods over others.
However, since its not explicitly racism, in the US its totally okay. You basically have to use a racial slur while doing it for it to count as "racism" here.
I agree with you to a point, some spices used in cultural dishes are extremely potent and permeates into everything when cooked even semi-frequently. Even worse than cigarette smoke IMO. Indian curry is delicious, but the cooking process of it...not so much.
It's not completely unreasonable to class these spices as having similar damage to property as cigarette smoke and often it takes similar remediation methods to get rid of it.
if the landlords care that much about cooking smells, they could use some of their ill-gotten wealth to install decent ventilation in kitchens..
When my wife and I bought our first house, I was able to clean the entire rest of the house in the time it took her to clean the wall where the previous owners had done their cooking.