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Loading... The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrongby Barry Glassner
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A disjointed account of various aspects of the American diet. Certain parts of the book are interesting and fresh--I enjoyed the accounts about eating at fabulous restaurants and the parts encouraging us to enjoy food. Other parts seemed well-worn and out of place (like some of the diet and nutrition advice). All in all, there wasn't a cohesive message in this book. (  ) gwendolyndawson | Mar 24, 2008 |  GREAT BOOK!!!!! I wish I could have finished reading it (due too soon and holds at the library), but it was fun to read and confirmed what we already knew - just about EVERYTHING is good for you in moderation; forget special diets (  ) ojchase | Jun 29, 2007 | An interesting discussion of the US' obsession with food; at the high end with ultra-expensive restaurants, at the low-end with claims of how fast food is responsible for every ill in modern America, and in between with the various bizarre claims of "scientists have proved" everything and anything about how what you eat affects your body and mind. A book like this could easily have become boring, but I found that I was entranced by most of it, excluding perhaps only the chapter on restaurants of the rich and famous which was just too removed from my life. In particular, the first few chapters, on food myths and on food science (how industrialists create new food products) are quite fascinating. (  ) name99 | Apr 12, 2007 | kated | Mar 27, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Enjoy what you eat.
From the author of the national bestseller The Culture of Fear comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating.
For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of celebrity chefs. We raise our children to believe that certain foods are good and others are bad. We believe that if we eat the right foods, we will live longer, and if we eat in the right places, we will raise our social status. Yet what we believe to be true about food is, in fact, quite contradictory. Offering part exposé, part social com-mentary, sociologist Barry Glassner talks to chefs, food chemists, nutritionists, and restaurant critics about the way we eat. Helping us recognize the myths, half-truths, and guilt trips they promulgate, The Gospel of Food liberates us for greater joy at the table.
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