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  1. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin's Moroccan dish, cumin-coriander-cinnamon-ginger-onion-fruit. {And in America? Well, we do have Heinz ketchup, a flavor principle in a bottle that kids, or their parents, use to domesticate every imaginable kind of food. We also now have the familiar salty-umami taste of fast food, which I would guess is based on salt, soy oil, and MSG.
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  2. Adam Gopnik _ Paris to the Moon

    {Commentary by J.-P. Quélin, food critic for Le Monde}. {New York and London chefs} are cooking, he says, at a level of originality that defies judgment, defies criticism, defies the grammar of cuisine. {This I think is true. When I took my brother to L'Arpege for his birthday we got fourteen -small- courses ... that made even the best of the old cuisine look like sludge.} /289
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