Reply To: Are We Balei Taiva?

Food is food. Good food is good food. We actually eat fewer different kinds of food than people did 100 or even 70 years ago. And in many ways we eat worse with bland, less nutritious drek being the only real choice we are allowed by the (enormous) trans-national conglomerates that control the entire food chain from seed to farmer to factory to market. A couple of really good Jewish writers – Raymond Sokolov and Mark Kurlansky – have written wonderful books on this. Sokolov’s Fading Feast and The American-Jewish Kitchen and Why We Eat What We Eat are great. So are Kurlansky’s Salt: A History of the World and Food of a Younger Land.