Julia Child For the Win
I have a huge amount of respect for Michael Pollan and I think he’s a great thinker who has done an enormous amount to draw attention to some serious issues regarding America and how it eats. His basic rule about eating pretty much says it all:
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“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
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And I agree with almost every single one of his expanded eating rules.
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But his piece in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, “Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch” left me cold. Pegged to the publicity campaign for the new movie, JULIE AND JULIA it read like a collection of received wisdom and talking points that added up to far less than the sum of its parts. It brought up more questions than it answered, and while that may be what he intended, I found that its relevance was ultimately undermined by the rose-tinted nostalgia that colored the entire piece.
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Julia Child has no time for nostalgia.
