On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:51 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> I share your sentiments. But more than "resolving difference" it tries to make difference inoffensive and, in creating unintuitive combinations of cuisines, it stresses the "arbitrary" nature of the differences. That is, rather than realizing that each cuisine (like each language) holds a mystery that can be experienced but not solved, it treats this mystery like a variable that can be inserted into any culinary equation.
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> Offensive to anyone who loves food.
Man, what an outburst of purity! I like the way butter & soy sauce taste together. Mike Davis has some wonderful stuff about the hybridized culture of the U.S.-Mexico border. What's wrong with miscegnation, culinary or otherwise?
Doug