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Ceelouise 09/29/2012 10:51 AM Report
Gopnik betrays himself as "gauche caviar". He is very wrong in his comment about Obama voters versus Republican voters and what they eat. My husband is French; we have very French sensibilities about eating. I am fluent in the language. I get most of my cooking ideas and recipes from the French government's site Mangerbouger.fr, and from the French magazine Elle a Table. We are urbanites - over ten years in Boston's South End and in Hamburg, Germany. And, gasp, I will vote for Romney and have always voted Republican. So would my French husband if he were a US citizen. Yes, Gopnik should be ashamed of that comment.
zelie 02/01/2012 11:47 AM Report
Adam mentions that Fergus Henderson unwittingly gave him the title for his book. The two met up in London in November and you can see the result here: http://www.talkingoffood.com/tags.html?item=158
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/05/2012 02:22 AM Report
If you have a food allergy (like soy for my wife) or lactose intolerance (our family genes) then food can be poison to the level of death.
So knowing what you drink, or having your favorite dish as the night's special, is one thing but surviving the night can be the real challenge.
Eating out is great if it is of value and you feel good after finishing.
Traveling around the country I have had food poisoning way too many times.
Charlie, I am glad you have a "cast iron" stomach.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/05/2012 02:15 AM Report
YES, have dinner with your children every possible night and tuck them in and tell them that you love them.
Ellen_Dibble 01/03/2012 06:08 PM Report
Interesting to hear a little about the history of the restaurant, as a home-from-home, a commercial arrangement, though in this "arrangement," a careful physical and human atmosphere is chosen, selected, paid for, rather than "given," as the table chez nous, the "original," whatever that is. I suppose Gopnik is from New York or thereabouts, a New Yorker writing for the New Yorker, but the times I've been in Manhattan, I haven't found much food of any description. That island seems a food desert, if you're looking for say carrots or bananas. I suppose the natives know... Or they live on deli food or something like that. That's excluding restaurants, of course. Those exist, and I can see why.
LigerBelair 01/03/2012 03:54 PM Report
Gopnik's claim that only left wing people serve locally grown carrots with fleur de sel while conservatives serve Ritz crackers topped with cream cheese is ignorant, condescending, and offensive. He's also just plain wrong: I know many, many people of all political perspectives who serve and/or grow foodstuffs such as vegetables, meat, and wine locally and in an organic or sustainable or even biodynamic manner. Gopnik ought to be ashamed of himself.
Signed,
An extremely liberal on social matters yet fiscally moderate San Franciscan.
REMant 01/03/2012 11:36 AM Report
I think the dietary rules must stem from the belief that one is taking from God, tho that doesn't explain something like the prohibition against pork, which must have to do with health, nor the prohibition against drugs of various sorts, tho that must have a "moral" component. It is also clear that food underlies a major part of foreign relations.