[lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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>Ever read old American cookbooks? Repulsive stuff. The old editions  of the 
>Joy of Cooking, aside from having those interesting entries on  how to 
>prepare muskrat, range from the dull to the appalling. Now you  can get 
>really good food in small cities across the US. During my  first marriage, 
>I used to visit my mother-in-law in southwestern  Virginia. When I first 
>visited in the late 1970s, the A&P in Abingdon  didn't have garlic. On my 
>last visit in 1999, you could get baby  eggplant and kimchee. Yeah, sure 
>there are lots of fatties, and lots  of crappy food, but nothing in 
>capitalist life is ever without  contradiction. But the average is so much 
>better than before that  it's barely in the same universe.

I think America's evolution into a nation of foodees is just another sign of 
decadence -- of course that may reflect only the stunted taste buds of a guy 
raised (in part) on baked beans and canned brown bread.

Carl