There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.
Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.
Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.
What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.
Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.
I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.
Like its breakfast companion Marmite, jam seems to divide the crowds. In many of its mass-produced guises, it seems barely acquainted with the fruit named on the jar, tasting mostly of sugar.
I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.
