Dan Dominguez has this blog. You have the ultimatum to read it or be thrown into the sea.
B.R. Myers: Expert on North Korean politics / yuppie flame-war instigator extraordinaire.
“The more lives sacrificed for a dinner, the more impressive the eater. Dana Goodyear: “Thirty duck hearts in curry … The ethos of this kind of cooking is undeniably macho.” Amorality as ethos, callousness as bravery, queenly self-absorption as machismo: no small perversion of language is needed to spin heroism out of an evening spent in a chair.”
This is BLISTERING. So so so mean and good. Does for foodies what that interview with Paul Haggis did for Scientologists.
Ugh, this article was the worst. It’s easy to denegrade an entire group of people if you assign them all the exact same extreme opinions, but considering the label “Foodie” doesn’t mean much more than “People who like to enjoy their meals” it’s a pretty insulting read for anyone who eats sweetbreads sometimes. It’s also an incredibly ironic set of accusations to come from a vegan, a group even more unfairly accused of being obnoxious than so-called “foodies” (also ironic, it’s because of vegans like BR Meyers that people have a stereotype of vegans/vegetarians that they need to “mind their own business.”)
Will, for once, my friend, i totally agree with you.
P.S. you’re still wrong about From Dusk ‘Til Dawn. that movie is awesome.
I don’t like his sweeping judgments against meat-eaters, but he touches on something that definitely bothers me about a certain kind of food fan: the assumption that everyone in the world is as wealthy as they are.
I don’t think it’s an assumption that everyone is as wealthy as they are that’s the problem, I think it’s more that they don’t care that others are not as wealthy as them. And that disparity weighs on them about as heavy as a summer rain.