Enjoy what you eat. From the author of the national bestseller The Culture of Fear
comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable
eating. For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of
celebrity chefs. We raise our children to believe that certain foods are good and
others are bad. We believe that if we eat the right foods, we will live longer, and
if we eat in the right places, we will raise our social status. Yet what we believe
to be true about food is, in fact, quite contradictory.

Offering part expose, part social com-mentary, sociologist Barry Glassner talks to
chefs, food chemists, nutritionists, and restaurant critics about the way we eat.
Helping us recognize the myths, half-truths, and guilt trips they promulgate, The
Gospel of Food liberates us for greater joy at the table...

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