Joshua Ferris grew up eating grey steak and limp lettuce. And then there was light: artisanal pizza, microbreweries, Michelin-starred barbecue. Now he's a believer...
The gourmand who spends his holiday combing Brooklyn for the best slice of pizza. The vegetarian who purchases only the organic kale from a local biodynamic farm at her weekly food market. The home cook who devotes years of his life to perfecting complicated, multi-step recipes for croissants, or ketchup, or sourdough bread.
Do you know these people? Are you these people? Do you think about food, all the time? Do you care where it came from and who made it or grew it or killed it, and how? Do you read the blogposts and the restaurant reviews and the culinary magazines? Do you derive meaning from eating?
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