Two things on the worldsaving front. Bittman's food manifesto is all laudable, but seems a bit of an eight minute abs thing, and is two years after Michael Pollan's rather pithier take.
Elsewhere, to return, again to the Freakonomics ish, I did point out that Alice was quite diplomatic about Adria, et al. But! she does get a dig in at the end w/r/t molecular gastronomy:
"It’s not a kind of way of eating that we need to really live on this planet together."
This is certainly true, but it suggests that the person making the statement is focused on ways of eating that we need to really live on this planet together, and is not, say, a groovier Bay Area version of Sirio Maccioni. Check out that eighty dollar prix fixe at Alice's restaurant tonight and decide for yourself.
Betimes, BDP can play us off, and explain the post title.
Thanks as always to Penny Pascal for the peerless photoshopping digging up archival photo of Alice's turn for USA for Africa.
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