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North America’s native cuisine met the same unfortunate fate as its native people, save for a few relics like the Thanksgiving turkey
Certainly, we still have regional specialties, but the Carolina barbecue will almost certainly have California tomatoes in its sauce, and the Louisiana gumbo is just as likely to contain Indonesian farmed shrimp
If either of these shows up on a fastfood menu with lots of added fats or HFCS, we seem unable either to discern or resist the corruption
We have yet to come up with a strong set of generalized norms, passed down through families, for savoring and sensibly consuming what our land and climate give us
We have, instead, a string of fad diets convulsing our bookstores and bellies, one after another, at the scale of the national best seller
Nine out of ten nutritionists view this as evidence that we have entirely lost our marbles