[lbo-talk] More on Robert Paul Wolff

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 14:03:59 PDT 2010


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)



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