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[the_grynne]

In yesterday's philosophy tutorial, our discussion of urban spaces and "socio-technical" material infrastructures wandered obliquely into an amused commentary on the slow food culture spreading out from continental Europe and taking foothold over the developed world.

And Voila! I see today in The Nation: Slow Food NationKind of related. Paul B.

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[altesse]

That's why I have an uncontrollable crush on A. A. Gill, the restaurant critic who combines both.

E.g. From Heterogay: 'I've woken in the middle of the night damp with the inexplicable desire to watch Doris Day and rearrange the furniture.'

[the_grynne]

So mum, I'm gay. Just like dad. Either that or I'm Italian.

*cackles*

That is definitely the way to go.

[rez_lo]

Oh my god, the socio-anthropology of food fills me with such existential dread. It's all true! Food is the instrument of hegemonic forces! We gorge, starve, obsess, enslave, worship, and destroy in its service according to whatever cultural narrative we're enacting at any given time!

But it makes me so tired, worrying about it all. The graduate comm course I took last year was big on this topic and I swear, I was a neurotic mess by the time it was over.(Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power is a decent book by way of example. I just... do better work when not overpowered by the insistence that the world as we know it is evil. Evil!)

::whimpers::

[the_grynne]

But it makes me so tired, worrying about it all.

That is exactly it. We aren't built for all that worry and computation. I LOVE food, I love eating. Slow better than fast, a large variety of small portions rather than a pile of single-choice (partly an Asian thing); whether or not moderation is environmental enough, I'm not equipped to give up coffee and sugar and red meat completely, even if I do sometimes have guilty moments of self-awareness. "Iron defficient" this and "calcium enriched" that, what on earth does it all mean?

[anonymous]

I love that Popmatters piece. Thanks for the link. It's funny and spot-on.

More Than a Mouthful...

[anonymous]

Thanks for the popmatters link. Oh, what I would give to eat without fear!