• Food, the counter-revolution….

    ….we were at a party last weekend, and wound up sitting with two other couples at a table in the kitchen.  (I always position myself to watch the cook, if possible, or at least be closer to the “seconds”.) Near the end of the dinner, one of the women at the table commented this was the first time she had had a meal with a group of people and not one had pulled out a smart phone during the course of the dinner to check for email messages.  It was true, we were unhooked for more than an hour and not one of us was experiencing tremors. I was reminded…