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From Happy Meals to Sarah Palin; The Fast Food of Politics

And somehow, somehow, we are actually being made to fight for the right of multinational corporations to peddle crappy food to our children by offering them a toy. Continue reading

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Top Chef Masters Finale

For me, watching it was agony and ecstasy — Ecstasy at the perfect challenge for the final three chefs: An autobiographical meal. Wow. For these chefs, this was truly the perfect device for them to tell the story of their lives and careers and relationship with food. Watching all three meet this challenge was better tv than an entire season of Top Chef. I was positively glued to the TV. Continue reading

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Why I love Top Chef Masters

I am a big fan of Top Chef, the reality series that recently wrapped up it’s 5th season on Bravo.  This summer, however, we are treated to the first season of Top Chef Masters, a spinoff of the original series … Continue reading

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