What is really creepy is that I went through my bookshelves yesterday evening, took Bourdain's book 'Kitchen Confidential' out and decided that I probably wouldn't want to read it again, and decided to give it to a charity bookstore. WTH.
“Strangely perhaps, there’s another profession that is disproportionately hallowed as an empire declines. The Romans, the Ottomans, and the Spanish all made celebrities of their chefs.”
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think- ago
What is really creepy is that I went through my bookshelves yesterday evening, took Bourdain's book 'Kitchen Confidential' out and decided that I probably wouldn't want to read it again, and decided to give it to a charity bookstore. WTH.
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Vindicator ago
All those obese or overly-slick celebrity chefs turn my stomach the same way self-help gurus always do. They raise my hackles.
LightlyToasted ago
“Strangely perhaps, there’s another profession that is disproportionately hallowed as an empire declines. The Romans, the Ottomans, and the Spanish all made celebrities of their chefs.”
https://barnabyisright.com/2013/03/30/why-celebrity-chefs-herald-the-end-of-empire/
Vindicator ago
Interesting quote :-)
Chef idolization is just another sign a society has become completely enslaved to its vices, IMO.