Culinary Paradoxes
In large part due to my most recent assignment for my gastronomy program, I've been thinking a lot about apparent contradictions or paradoxes relating to contemporary food and eating. For example, increasing instances of food contamination despite advances in food technology, increasing quantity of food but decreasing quality, natural versus industrial, fresh versus processed ... you get the picture. And then I pick up my copy of The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan and I'm dumbstruck by how he has absolutely nailed the biggest American culinary paradox of all - "a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthy." I'm going to bed now - to lie quietly in my dark room with the cat purring softly beside me - to ponder this notion of Mr. Pollan's.
Last week ... nut sacks (I mean, snacks). This week ... some late night culinary ruminations. We do it all here at Bitegeist. Tell your friends, and visit again soon.
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