Category Archive: Food

Aug 15 2008

Food fads

I find it a little odd the fascination that many people have with food. I know people who watch the cooking shows on TV with almost a religious fervor. Diet books abound. People eagerly seize on the latest ideas about what may be good for your health and what may be bad and make wholesale …

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Aug 14 2008

The etiquette of food

After grappling with some heavy moral issues involving the treatment of animals and the eating of meat, I want to look at a related but lighter topic: the etiquette of food restrictions in the host-guest relationship. Sometimes I wonder if we have gone too far in being accommodating of people’s food restrictions, to the extent …

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