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calorie-counting is so middle America?
Dec. 29th, 2010 06:38 pmToday's recipe from the NY Times food section: "Decadent Quiche"; today's food headline from the Arizona Republic (ie dumb local paper): "5 Meals Under 500 Calories."
(disclosure: I don't particularly like the faux-liberalism of the NY Times, though I find their "lifestyle" sections hilarious; I really don't like the down-home Americana of the AZ Rep, but though I find their periodic attempts to ape the high style of, well, high style, pretty hilarious, too, there's something a little bit sad about it all.)
I'm sure there's something to be said about the privilege of being able to eat whatever you want when you decide you want it because you generally can afford fresh vegetables and a balanced diet and the time to prepare them nicely and have access to gyms and exercise classes, in contrast to the needing to control and plan for everything that you eat. Something about food as a source of pleasure and enjoyment vs. food as a fraught source of anxiety that is out to get you. Something about how if obesity and health problems that are popularly related to food consumption are the Evil That Afflicts The Less Fortunate Classes in this country (as we are often told they are), there's a telling difference between the class that says "look how close I can come to those supposedly "dangerous" behaviors (because I'm not really under threat from them)" and the class that is supposed to be desperately fighting off the looming threat of -- oh noes -- being fat.
(disclosure: I don't particularly like the faux-liberalism of the NY Times, though I find their "lifestyle" sections hilarious; I really don't like the down-home Americana of the AZ Rep, but though I find their periodic attempts to ape the high style of, well, high style, pretty hilarious, too, there's something a little bit sad about it all.)
I'm sure there's something to be said about the privilege of being able to eat whatever you want when you decide you want it because you generally can afford fresh vegetables and a balanced diet and the time to prepare them nicely and have access to gyms and exercise classes, in contrast to the needing to control and plan for everything that you eat. Something about food as a source of pleasure and enjoyment vs. food as a fraught source of anxiety that is out to get you. Something about how if obesity and health problems that are popularly related to food consumption are the Evil That Afflicts The Less Fortunate Classes in this country (as we are often told they are), there's a telling difference between the class that says "look how close I can come to those supposedly "dangerous" behaviors (because I'm not really under threat from them)" and the class that is supposed to be desperately fighting off the looming threat of -- oh noes -- being fat.
