Culinary Burkeanism?

by John

Via Christopher Shea comes a terrific post by Publius at Obsidian Wings, making a compelling case that there is a trio of fundamentally Burkean attitudes - specifically a skepticism of modernity, a belief in the wisdom of custom, and a concern for the harms of sudden change - at the core of Michael Pollan's take on food and food "science". This is not, in other words, just the more narrowly "cultural" culinary traditionalism that Pollan happily owns up to in his interview with Rod Dreher in the latest TAC (and for which I argued in my piece therein), but rather the application of what really amounts to a sort of Burkean skepticism-cum-deference-to-tradition to the question of what we should eat and why. The post is, in short, not easily excerptable but very much worth a read.

Edmund Burke, patron saint of hippie organic food indeed. Someone get Jonah Goldberg on the line ...

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