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Mindful Eating and The Quality of Pleasure
I ran across two items last week that illustrate a peculiar mistrust of pleasure in American life. The first is this article from the NY Times on mindful eating. I talk about mindful eating a lot...
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Foodies are the New Blondes
I often stumble across articles, blog post comments, and other assorted sermons decrying America’s discovery of taste and mocking the foodist sentiment that “foodliness” is next to godliness. (I’m not...
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The Only New Year’s Resolution Worth Making
Tomato Basil SoupRecipe and Photograph by The Curvy Carrot It’s day 2 of the new year. Time to implement those New Year’s resolutions we were dreaming about yesterday—lose weight, get in shape, spend...
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Guilty Pleasures (and how to get the most out of them)
All of us have them. Pleasures we shouldn’t enjoy but we just can’t help ourselves. Food tends to be the most common source although music, film or TV supply plenty of tacky, sophomoric drivel to...
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The Puritan Mark Bittman
I agree with NY Times’ food columnist Mark Bittman that the word “foodie” should be retired. At a dinner party the other night where people were asked to say a word about themselves, one woman said,...
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Enjoyment and Contemplation
Now that food has become an object of discourse rather than a taken-for-granted necessity, it has also become the focus of myriad ideological crosscurrants—vegan vs. vegetarian vs. carnivore; paleo vs....
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Mindful Eating and The Quality of Pleasure
I ran across two items last week that illustrate a peculiar mistrust of pleasure in American life. The first is this article from the NY Times on mindful eating. I talk about mindful eating a lot...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Foodies are the New Blondes
I often stumble across articles, blog post comments, and other assorted sermons decrying America’s discovery of taste and mocking the foodist sentiment that “foodliness” is next to godliness. (I’m not...
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The Only New Year’s Resolution Worth Making
Tomato Basil SoupRecipe and Photograph by The Curvy Carrot It’s day 2 of the new year. Time to implement those New Year’s resolutions we were dreaming about yesterday—lose weight, get in shape, spend...
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Guilty Pleasures (and how to get the most out of them)
All of us have them. Pleasures we shouldn’t enjoy but we just can’t help ourselves. Food tends to be the most common source although music, film or TV supply plenty of tacky, sophomoric drivel to...
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Wine, Good Food, and Grace
A life in which the pleasures of food and drink are not central is missing a crucial dimension of a good life. Food and drink, are a constant presence in our lives, and thus can be a constant source of...
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Taste and the Good Life
A life in which the pleasures of food and drink are not important is missing a crucial dimension of a good life. In my Three Quarks column this month, I explain why good wine and good food matter so...
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