The moral crusade against foodies
 

On Mar 2, 7:55*am, Dave U. Random >
wrote:
> (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.
>

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 )