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I like Tyler Cowen's blog a lot - http://marginalrevolution.com/ - his mind works much like my own in that he loves data and the critical analysis thereof. He's got lots of interesting ideas and is rarely a blowhard about anything.

Interesting, then, that he would also write what looks to be a thoughtful and contrarian book about food:

http://www.amazon.com/Economist-Gets-Lunch-Everyday-Foodies/dp/0525952667/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323874242&sr=1-1/marginalrevol-20

He recounts: Let me just give you a few traits of food snobs that I would differ from. First, they tend to see commercialization as the villain. I tend to see commercialization as the savior. Second, they tend to construct a kind of good versus bad narrative where the bad guys are agribusiness, or corporations, or something like chains, or fast food, or microwaves. And I tend to see those institutions as flexible, as institutions that can respond, and as the institutions that actually fix the problem and make things better. So those would be two ways in which I’m not-only not a food snob, but I’m really on the other side of the debate.

In an age overrun by culinary piety, this is truly refreshing. I'm more of a romantic-naturalist than he is, so I have more tolerance for ecological woo, but he sure knows how to tell it like it is.

I highly reccommend his e-book "The Great Stagnation", btw. Provides a very useful perspective on the economic crisis.
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