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Publication Wed Feb 28 2007
Fixation on Food
The lead story on the Tribune's website this evening demands "Are you really going to eat that?" and declares "Food fanaticism gets out of control." In the article, author Emily Nunn bemoans the fraught culture of food that has developed over the past few years in the United States and worldwide. The story is cynical, bitter, and sadly, very truthful. Nunn claims that eating today is so politicized that it is nearly impossible to ingest anything without a guilty conscience. The article includes a reader poll, posing two questions: “Do you think American culture has become too fanatical about food?” and “Do you worry about what you eat?” The current responses are telling: 66.4 percent claim that we are too obsessed with what we eat, while an almost equal 68 percent claim that they worry about food just as much as the next guy. If you ask me, it’s really not all that surprising how much time and energy we focus on food. Aside from air and water, there’s not much more that’s quite as essential to human life.
