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Tag: Chrestomathy

Not to Mention the Fork

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2018Thursday, July 26, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“Saying grace with a full and sincere heart sanctifies the whole smorgasbord, even it is the kind you find in a cheap restaurant, and even if there is enough MSG in the pans there to make your spoon taste pretty good” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 153).

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People Like to Cluster

Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2018Tuesday, July 24, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“To want everyone to live close to the land is to want a human race that God, for some reason, decided not to create” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 149).

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Or So It Seems to Me

Posted on Monday, July 23, 2018Monday, July 23, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“It doesn’t make sense to move from one end of the pool to the other because you are tired of being wet” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 146).

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And Now for a Radical Concept

Posted on Friday, July 20, 2018Friday, July 20, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“I believe that a free people should be able to grow, harvest, sell, truck, shelve, freeze, process, buy, cook, or savor whatever [food] they please, just so long as they do it on their own dime” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 146).

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No, Wait

Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2018Thursday, July 19, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“The coming ice age is coming, the globe is warming, and the science is settled, no, wait. Turns out the globe got so hot it cooked the books” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 143).

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When the Flavor Alliterates

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018Wednesday, July 18, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“Food must indeed be sanctified. But the only thing that sanctifies it is the gravy of grace and gratitude” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 140).

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Fake and Real

Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018Tuesday, July 17, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“Once the indignation is established, it becomes possible to draw on a hidden premise that too many Americans share—that sins should be crimes—and move from that position to the idea that made-up sins should be made into real crimes” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 139).

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Which It Isn’t

Posted on Monday, July 16, 2018Monday, July 16, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“If you like to eat what you like to eat, this means that you are a human being. If you are morally indignant about the food choices of others, this means you are well on the way to becoming a food leftist. Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community” …

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You Know?

Posted on Friday, July 13, 2018Friday, July 13, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“I believe alternative food producers should be free to sell their unpasteurized milk off the back of their pick-up truck if they want to. We are all Christians here, and we all have to go to Heaven sometime” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 136).

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What Regulation Does

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2018Thursday, July 12, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“But to call for regulation of industry is to call for just this kind of crony capitalism, what I have elsewhere called crapitalism. This is what regulation does. This is hair of the dog that bit you reform, which is to say, no reform at all, no solution at all.” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, …

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