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. In the same compelling way he debunked overblown
fears in The Culture of Fear, sociologist Barry Glassner now reveals
the reason we are so captivated, and confused, by food.
