I’ve just started An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
As it stands, food writers, commentators, and foodies are misled by three doctrines, useless in Nicaragua, useless at home, and misleading almost everywhere else:
- The best food is the most expensive. (Assume time is money and it follows that slow food is better.)
- Our largest source of cheap food – large agribusiness – is irredeemably bad.
- Consumers are not a trusted source of innovation; rather, they are to be constrained, nudged, taxed, and subjected to the will of others – chefs, food writers, cultural leaders, and, especially, political officeholders.