The Rape of the Palate Most People Have No Taste; It s Been Lost in the Process Headline in The Wall Street Journal, April 3o, 1974 WRITE with trepidation. How shall we tell our fellow Americans that our palates have been ravaged, that our food is awful, and that our most respected authorities on cookery are poseurs? Can most Americans be wrong? Con- sidering our recent political and social history, the answer is evidently yes. But that is the wisdom of hindsight, im- posed upon us by Vietnam and Watergate. In challenging our very taste, we must confront the housewife inter- viewed on a television program not long ago. She claimed that she prepared a wholesome balanced diet, but her children preferred junk food \"because it tastes good.\" \"Food is for health,\" she wailed. \"Why does it have to taste good?\" How shall we tell her that she is a terrible cook, and that junk food does not taste good? When she says \"taste good,\" she simply means \"taste sweet.\" If she is a typical American, and she sounds like one, her very first mouth-
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