“Finally, my prejudices . . . I am also against margarine, ‘prepared’ foods, broiled grapefruit, marshmallow sweet potatoes, and whipped cream in pressurized cans. On the other hand, I am wild about peanut butter and canned fruit cocktail (even the kind that tastes like the can). I will eat as much process cheese as I …
The Corporations Are Way Ahead of You
I mentioned in an earlier post that one of the things needed in our discussions about contemporary foodism is more careful attention to basic logic. Related to this is the careless use of certain terms that are not defined as they ought to be, and are not used consistently thereafter. Whenever we are beat up …
Little Robot Bees
One of reasons a confused approach to food is increasingly common is because of a failure to apply the doctrine of the Fall to life around us. This can be seen in the very common use of the word natural as an unqualified term of praise. First, the doctrine. God created the world and all …
Therefore It Stays
“Nothing is more likely to become garbage than orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash heap. That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such …
The Loving Eye
“There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace. There, too, is the necessity of his work: His tribe must be in short supply; his job has gone begging. The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of a pack of trolls. Indeed, the whole …
Health is Not Mechanical
“The key to health is obedience and faith, not mechanical observance of health techniques. Valuable as exercise, good diet, and the like may be, they are not delineated in God’s revealed law” (James Jordan, Pig Out? p. 58).
Infinite at the Top
I have already said that the position I am arguing for here is not food egalitarianism, or worse, food relativism. There is no neutrality anywhere, including in the kitchen and dining room, and this means that in principle we can say that “this food” is better than “that food.” But when we do, we are …
The Authority of the Table
The most important things about food are the companions, seated around the table. The second most important thing is the table itself, the fact of the gathering. The third most important thing would be the quality of the food consumed. We learn all of this from the First Table, the Lord’s Table, and we are …
The Constitution and Character of Rasputin
I need to continue a bit more on “how we know things about food.” In this post I am going to wax a bit autobiographical, and I hope that’s all right with everybody. This is not so that I can talk about me, but rather because I can’t talk about how I figure things without …
Hippie Mama Free-Range Macaroni
Okay, what causes what, and how can we know? Let’s talk a bit about stewardship, epistemology and food. One of the central problems in food debates is the conflicting nature of multiple claims made about food. And in order to sort through all of it, we have to address the question of knowledge. In a …