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for: cooking shows, food processing, evolution |
08/03/09: I'm tremendously impressed by Pollan's research and writing about the agriculture and procesed food industry. This is a fun interview of how we have gone from Julia Child's unscripted and messy cooking style which invited people to cook to the current often macho spectator sport-like "dump and stir" cooking. He goes on to discuss the role of cooking in human evolution. This interview was provided to promote a related recent New York Times Magazine article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2I liked his explanation of the attraction of cooking shows: "You’ll be flipping aimlessly through the cable channels when a slow-motion cascade of glistening red cherries or a tongue of flame lapping at a slab of meat on the grill will catch your eye, and your reptilian brain will paralyze your thumb on the remote, forcing you to stop to see what’s cooking. Food shows are the campfires in the deep cable forest, drawing us like hungry wanderers to their flames." |
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