Americans are awfully messed up about food — so thinks Barry Glassner, University of Southern California sociology professor and author of “The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong.” We imbue certain ingredients with an almost magical power to heal — when, that is, we’re not fearing them as poisons we must strip from our diet.
Enjoy your food (don't be afraid of it!)
Saturday, March 24, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 6:18 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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