This article by Mary Eberstadt argues that "food is the new sex." It's an argument that gets thrown around a lot, because the two drives are similar (is one a drive and one an instinct?). Eberstadt's take is historical and ideological: where food used to be a matter of taste, even 50 years ago, while sex was governed by various moral laws, life in America these days seems to have completely reversed the relationship. It's a very smart article and explains the prolific nature of food blogs. Like ours. She's not the first to make the argument, but she does it the most convincingly. And she gets at some of the consequences without moralizing.
One of us is dating a man who doesn't cook, and so this sort of thing has been on her mind.
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