Some food issue editorials.
Our National Eating Disorder “The ‘French paradox’ is the most famous such case, though it’s worth keeping in mind the French don’t regard the matter as a paradox at all; we Americans resort to that word simply because the French experience — a population of wine-swilling cheese eaters with lower rates of heart disease and obesity?! — confounds our orthodoxy about food. Maybe what we should be talking about is an American paradox: that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.”
Free market my eye! “Rod Liddle says that supermarkets are cruel to the customer, cruel to the farmer and cruel to the farm animal” He makes England’s supermarkets sound worse than ours.
“For six and a half days every week you cannot buy fish or shellfish in the town unless it’s pre-packed anaemic prawns or pre-packed dried-out cod or pre-packed chunks of livid farmed salmon. Then, on a Friday morning, a chap sets up a caravan, tucked away in a quiet carpark, and surreptitiously dispenses Brixham crab and fresh mullet as if they were Class-A drugs. If you want fresh fish in south-west Wiltshire, you have to turn up between ten o