Monday, June 13, 2011

Lewis H. Lapham On Food

Outstanding, enjoyable, humorous, and informative article by Lewis H. Lapham

ZNET: Stomachs Too Big to Fail?
...at trendsetting New York restaurants, in one of which last winter my asking about the chance of seeing a baked or mashed potato prompted the waiter to remove the menu from my hand, gently but firmly retrieving the pearl from a swine.

The potato in sixteenth-century Europe was believed to cause leprosy and syphilis. As of two years ago, 19% of America’s meals were being eaten in cars.

The sum of the world’s economic enterprise is how much or how little anybody gets to eat, the number of those present above and below the salt accounting for the margin of difference between a bull and a bear market.

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