![]() ![]() Other pieces are successful at evoking the powerful childhood associations of food. Not only is it not true that "there is no greater pleasure than to be expected at a meal and not arrive," it is not the kind of claim that leads us into an interesting paradox or thought experiment. ![]() The gnomic pronouncements that often initiate these stories caan be strained. 3, which is rumored to contain human meat researchers discover a food additive that causes sudden, unmotivated laughter and try it out at a waterfront restaurant on unsuspecting tourists. In Crace's book of 64 food fables, the raw and the cooked are sequenced in sometimes bizarre ways: a woman remembers her mother's version of "soup stone," its magic ingredient a stone found on the seashore a famous restaurant in an isolated Third World locale becomes chic by supplying appetizers of "soft-bodied spiders, swag beetles, forest roaches" and, as a main dish, the famous Curry No. The line between nature and culture, according to Levi-Strauss, runs through our kitchens-between the raw and the cooked. ![]()
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