Doubt The Conventional Wisdom Unless You Can

I Hate 'foodie' Because It's Cute, Like Pretty Much All Diminutives Associated With Eating. 'veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I Eat Food, And I Cook It: It's For Eating, Preferably With Friends, And I Don't Make A Fetish Out Of It.

Clip Your Year-end Column And Put It Away For 10 Years. See If You Don’t Feel Like An Idiot When You Reread It.

My Father Was An Expert Hunter, So We Ate A Lot Of Wild Game When I Was Growing Up In Montana. That Helped Broaden My Palate Generally, But I Know It Informed My Distaste For Factory Farms And Unspectacular Commercial Meat.

I Wouldn't Mind Being Taller, Because When I'm In The Company Of People Who Are Absurdly Tall, There's Something About Them That I Can't Help Admiring.

A Lot Of Musicians Are Good Cooks, And A Lot Of Cooks Are Musicians, But I Think That May Just Be A Result Of The Creative Impulse Finding Several Means Of Expression. Probably An Equivalent Number Are Visual Artists, Woodworkers Or Compulsive Liars.