The moral crusade against foodies

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(The Atlantic) - We have all dined with him in restaurants: the
host who insists on calling his special friend out of the kitchen
for some awkward small talk. The publishing industry also wants us
to meet a few chefs, only these are in no hurry to get back to
work. Anthony Bourdain?s new book, his 10th, is "Medium Raw: A
Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook"
(Amazon: http://xrl.us/MediumRaw ). In it he announces, in his
trademark thuggish style, that ?it is now time to make the idea of
not cooking ?un-cool? ? and, in the harshest possible way short of
physical brutality, drive that message home.? Having finished the
book, I think I?d rather have absorbed a few punches and had the
rest of the evening to myself.

Continued: http://sn.im/Foodies
 
Dave U. Random wrote:

I must say that I've found Steingarten and some of the other judges on Iron
Chef quite insufferable. I recall one Iron Chef round where a chef was
chosen by the other chefs--Flay, et al--because his fundamentals were
excellent. (Not that he was a plodder by any means.) Steingarten and co were
huffing and puffing because they didn't find his dishes to be exotic and
cutesy enough to tempt their jaded palates. They apparently wanted the guy
who couldn't properly braise or roast, but who served everything with
flowers and foam.
 
On Mar 2, 7:55?am, Dave U. Random
wrote:

The latest outpouring from PETAphile B. R. Myers has already been
discussed to death. This is just another of his periodic reviews of
food writing. I find Myers' writing on food in America particularly
bizarre because he lives in South Korea, a country where the prime
gourmet treat is pork fattened with human feces. ( Jeju Black Pig )
 
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