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  A Matter of
Ta s t e
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 Buck Reed
The Supermarket Gourmet
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A man can go his whole life nobody is really wrong on this
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with him, that he is perfect in every
$F2.r0Ae0npOcrFihFl$aMn1Sy2paneaniclicsieaurvlriece way. Then, he falls in love and gets Then there is the “allergic”
married, and spends the rest of his crowd. The latest trend is the
1133 WWaatteerrSSttrreeeettiinnTThhuurrmmoonntt life finding out from his wife all “gluten-free” horde. Now I will go
his faults and liabilities. One of the on record as saying Celiac Disease
first things I found out after getting is an awful thing and, of course,
married was that you must wash ice accommodations must be made
cube trays. Not just rinse them out for them. And if you think you are
with fresh water, but actually put allergic to gluten then you should be
them in the dish washer and wash taken care of as well. As I have said
them. Who knew? It is the same to many professional food service
with cooking for other people. workers: if you do not have one
or two gluten-free options on your
When we grow up, we get used to menu, then you are only bringing
the way our parents put food on the grief on yourself.
table. If they are good cooks, then
your parents put nice, well prepared Then there is the offended crowd.
food on your plate. But even if they There is no telling what you can put
were not, you got used to it and on their plate that isn’t going to pull
that’s what you become accustomed the trigger in their mind that will
to. How we were brought up make them spout off on how that
determines not only our etiquette and slice of pork is oppressing them. The
behaviors, but also our sense of taste. scary part is they not only want to
regulate what they are going to eat,
Another problem is where we but they want to control what you
were brought up. I can make a eat as well. I guess you will be seeing
good argument that the United me at the “Sean Penn Ban the Bacon
States is a bean-eating nation. But, Reeducation Camp” opening soon
although we eat a lot of beans, in your home town.
we seem to have a different way
of preparing them from region to Cooking for yourself is easy. You
region. Barbeque beans from Texas can make what you want and make
may have some resemblance to it taste the way you want. You can
Boston baked beans, but not enough even save a plate and eat over the
to convert a cowboy to a city boy. sink, right out of the pan. But as you
And red beans and rice from New add others into the mix, you must
Orleans are a far cry from the way start planning and acting like you
they eat them in those California are sincere and considerate. And
bean cakes. It is like dividing people maybe if you act like you’re sincere
up into dog, cat, or horse people— and considerate, maybe you will
actually become those things.

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