At the Daily Caller, Rick Berman profiles New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman, whom Berman dubs “Perhaps the best example of today’s self-righteous, science-blind food snobs:”
For 13 years, the New York Times columnist dished up recipes—and I’ll admit that many were tasty. But this winter he tossed his apron into the compost pile and launched a politics-focused Times food column. The result may as well be titled “Let Them Eat Arugula.”
Bittman’s basic narrative is that America’s food system is full of “hidden” costs, taxing both our health and our environment. Never mind that we have more food than ever before, and that it costs the average American just 7 percent of his or her income.
The Bittman-inspired foodie movement’s goal is to encourage us all to roll back the clock on farming and food production, to a practically pre-Industrial Revolution framework.
Funny, there’s a lot of that going around these days — and not just in Afghanistan.
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