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...such an explicitly culinary journey, cultural stories should spring from the food and not the other way around. For instance, it is only once Barlow arrives at the house of Castro’s cousin that he searches for a connection to food. Finding none, other than a modest meal she serves, he rambles instead about Galician migration to Cuba. Barlow doesn’t even attempt to find a porcine connection in his visit with Don Manuel Fraga Iribarne, an eminent Spanish politician. I understand that Fraga is the most famous Galician alive, but if he has nothing...
...privilege people will have to give up is the culture of unlimited consumer choice. This doesn’t mean that everyone have to move to hemp farms and clothe children in newspaper diapers. It does, however, mean that people may not be able to eat beef at every meal. It may mean a flight between New York and Los Angeles will become a once-a-decade expense rather than a once-a-week one. It may mean more shopping at the secondhand store. At the heart of this is an epistemological reconfiguring of the current pyramid of economic values?...
...protein is as effective in humans as it was in mice, a few months of treatment would permit type 1 diabetics to produce their own insulin, rather than injecting themselves with synthetic insulin with each meal...
...Shaun Dakin, who worked in calling centers for the Democratic Party during the 2004 and 2006 election cycles, remembers the often profanity-laden responses he received from voters angered by mid-meal calls. "Some would tell me, 'Hey guess what, you're calling for X campaign, well then I'm going to vote for Y campaign." For this reason, he launched a movement to create a political version of the Do Not Call registry, arguing that voters should at least be able to opt out. His website, StopPoliticalCalls.org, even includes a "Robo-Call of Shame...
Apparently, this aphorism applies even when the absent party is an abstruse and foreboding series of numbers that once leered over your meal options. Somehow, old friends who once had nothing but vitriol for the quasi-meaningless card stock feel lost without them, which is a problem in itself...