‘Political consumerism’ and food choice WordPress often asks us to pretend that all our choices are mediated on a simple model of choice, that might, of course, still involve a number of factors regarding the item, such as cost and affordability, use value of the the product – the nutritional value of foods for instance, … More ‘Political consumerism’ and food choice
G.K. Chesterton wrote What’s Wrong with the World’ in 1910 and I have, I have to admit, never read it but I did search out a context for the quotation that is a little wider and here it is: “Nobody says, “This washerwoman rips up the left leg of my pyjamas; now if there is … More The art of cooking might after all be another defensive response to ‘raw’ truth.
Believe it or not, there is a Wikipedia entry for ‘snack’. I link to it here. What is more this entry tries to enhance the significance of the term by looking at cultural variants of foodstuffs considered ‘snacks’ across a number of locations and cultures, as well as tieing it to theoriesof the propensities involved … More The meaning of a Pot Noodle (or other ‘snack’) and when you might ingest from it, possibly in secret, the mass of calories it supplies?
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