Let’s Start the Foodie Backlash
7th October 2012
Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. We are living in the Age of Food. Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies (Heston Blumenthal) or bronze-moulded pasta (Jamie Oliver) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers. Food festivals (or, if you will, “Feastivals”) are the new rock festivals, featuring thrilling live stage performances of, er, cooking.
October 8th, 2012 at 05:15
Poole is free to reject good food and to eat his fill at Dunkin’ Doughnuts and McDonald’s, or, in his own home, to burn water and char mac ‘n’ cheese.
October 8th, 2012 at 08:01
Cooking is boring, both the doing and the watching of it. And I like Kraft Mac-n-Cheese and feel no need to apologize for that.