Food Fights and Culture Wars

Culinary fads...

Making an epic sandwich.

Not long ago an editor asked me for one of those end-of-the-year pieces predicting “the kale of 2017,”  Lisa Abend reports on nytimes.com. 

That I knew exactly what she was talking about is less a comment on my clairvoyance than on the current ubiquity of food trends, Abend wrote

 And just as our infatuation with kale salads was born of phenomena like the farm-to-table movement and the elevation of the chef to social arbiter, the culinary fads and innovations of previous eras reflected their own concerns and conflicts, she added.

Tom Nealon brings several of these synergies to glorious light in the eclectic, free-ranging “Food Fights and Culture Wars.” An antiquarian bookseller and food history blogger, he unites his two passions in an engaging work that explores moments when the taste for a new food sprang from or collided with larger forces, Abend wrote.

For more about Nealon's new book: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/books/review/food-fights-and-culture-wars-tom-nealon.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&smvar=wkndbau&referer=http://m.facebook.com

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