New Yorker Food Issue Article on NYC Restaurant Inspections

[Guest guest]

Has anyone else read this week's New Yorker " Food Issue " ? While it doesn't

directly address any of the " food issues " we discuss in this group, it's got

some interesting stuff that's inferentially supportive of veg*n lifestyles,

along with 2 or 3 cartoons that poke mild fun at the likes of us. The link

below is an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, whose somewhat cautionary

article recounts her tagging along behind two NYC restaurant inspectors for

a couple of days. The health-violation citations that the inspectors issued

during the course of the article were almost categorically meat/dairy

related (drippings from uncooked chicken falling into pasta, raw eggs left

on a counter), though neither the author nor the inspectors make note of any

correlation. Shocking. Another color feature describes the efforts of a nun

in Connecticut who makes 'raw-milk' cheese; that is, cheese from

unpasteurized whole milk that's apparently developed quite an illicit market

in NYC because food-safety guidelines make it so hard to legally produce or

import.

 

Most of the rest of the magazine, seems to me, covers the less-than-pressing

issues of how the elite are perceived to eat. These particular articles

aren't available online, but if you can get your hands on a copy, I think

they're worth a read. And though I'm sure the New Yorker will receive some

letters that point out the obvious but ignored connection between animal

products and food-safety hazards, it wouldn't hurt to deluge them with a few

more...

 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020819on_onlineonly01

 

And I too will miss bruno.

 

 

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