A Plea for Culinary Modernism

The obsession with eating natural and artisanal is ahistorical. We should demand more high-quality industrial food.

Jacobin
Jacobin
Sep 4, 2018 · 23 min read
“variety of sliced fruits” by Brooke Lark on Unsplash

BY RACHEL LAUDAN

Modern, fast, processed food is a disaster. That, at least, is the message conveyed by newspapers and magazines, on television cooking programs, and in prizewinning cookbooks.

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Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

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Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches over 30,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of 1,000,000 a month.

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