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Tag: Chrestomathy

Which Is Not to be Desired

Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2018Wednesday, July 11, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“These are problems that do to justice what the meat-packing plants do to cows” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 133).

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Thus Fixing the Previous Reformations

Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2018Wednesday, July 11, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“And is this not the very definition of the modern reformer—someone who identifies a problem and wants ‘something done’—whether or not it makes things better or worse?” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 133).

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So Don’t Do That

Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2018Tuesday, July 10, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“The problem here is not what we know, but rather what we think we know—and how quickly we start pressuring and condemning others on the basis of what we think we know” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 128).

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It is Conceivable

Posted on Monday, July 9, 2018Monday, July 9, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“Simply allow for the possibility that our generation is a herd, just like the others, and stampedes, just like the others . . . allow for the likelihood that in certain areas our generation is just as dumb as all the others” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 124).

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Where the Price is Right

Posted on Friday, July 6, 2018Friday, July 6, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“We live in a time when the government assumes way too much regulatory responsibility for food and drugs, and we should recognize that this does not eliminate the idea of a free market price. It just moves the free market price from the food and drugs, where it ought to be, and creates a free …

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Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That

Posted on Thursday, July 5, 2018Thursday, July 5, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“Whole grains are a great delivery module for getting nutritional value down to the sewer treatment plant” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 120).

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How, Not What

Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2018Tuesday, July 3, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“We sin with food all the time, and God still doesn’t care what we eat. Mastering that distinction is crucial” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 119).

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Wrong Way

Posted on Monday, July 2, 2018Monday, July 2, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“It is the mark of [a] certain kind of dogmatic mind that the farther away from the evidence he gets, the more certain he gets” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 115).

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Camel Bisque

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2018Thursday, June 28, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“And speaking of finicky diets, these are the people who strain at gnats and eat the camel. And to make it perfectly plain, swallowing unclean camels is a dietary issue” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 110).

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Complicity for the Pie

Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2018Tuesday, June 26, 2018 by Douglas Wilson

“Eating stolen goods that I watched get stolen is morally problematic, and I cheerfully grant it. But I am here talking about my supposed complicity in the strange oaths that the foreman in the Texas orchard swore at his underpaid migrant workers, in the season before those pecans from said orchard made their way through …

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