i wonder how different american food politics had been if omnivores dilemma was a better book, at least amongst my 'coastal elite' segment i think it might be a kind of ur-text for people who are reliably wrong.

cultural influence is always hard to pin down. maybe organic food and SuStainAble MeAt would have gained traction even without it. but a lot of the language and aesthetic seems like it tracks back to the same, just absolutely trash, book.

this is a subtweet of the epicurious blowback, which is part reactionary-right-what-you'd-expect, but also part elite "Sustainable organic farms are actually self-contained and taking away the cows makes them worse" https://twitter.com/epicurious/status/1386702329613672452