[lbo-talk] More on Robert Paul Wolff

[c b]

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.

Offensive to anyone who loves food.

Joanna

 Strangely I hate California style cuisine because it attempts to resolve
> difference. I don't want to resolve difference, I want to enjoy it.

The finest paragraph I've read in quite some time. Thanks. __

^^^^^
CB: Well, we are talking about tastes here. (smile)