Black people also look pretty brown to me, no big deal.
As for the culinary stuff there's one glaring part I've seen so far, while europe for example had horrid culinary skills for many centuries,
they've never been even remotely bad when it comes to thoroughly get stuff done rather than leave some bits raw inside.
(Although that like anything else related to cooking in europe back then wasn't done for taste reasons, but for health reasons.)
There's a reason why most of europe had a very clear attitude about not accepting anything raw as edible food,
and for the same reason there's no way they'd sloppily burn a surface leaving the content raw like that.