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Has Today's Food Writing Gone to Pot?

Paul Levy, a 30-year veteran of UK food writing, says he's grown tired of the macho posturing of today's crop of food writers: The food writing that's in vogue today consists chiefly of a bellow of bravado. It's a guy thing, sure, but (with a few honorably hungry exceptions) these scribblers mostly ignore what's on the plate. They view themselves as boy hunters and despise sissy gatherers, thrive on the undertow of violence they detect in the professional kitchen, and like to linger on the unappetizing aspects of food preparation. The gross-out factor trumps tasting good as well as good taste. The perps? Anthony Bourdain and Bill Buford I could see. But the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik? Please. Levy posits...

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13 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 25, 2007 at 4:00 PM
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