“Beef & Liberty”. Such was the slogan of the 18th century London
dining club, The Sublime Society of Beef Steaks. The carnivorous Regency
gentlemen were sensible in associating the scoffing of sirloin with
freedom and the rights of Britons. Food, like the personal, is
political. With Russia’s invasion of “the breadbasket of Europe”, it is
wheat, the most widely-grown crop in the world, that has been sucked
into existential questions. But if meat tandems with liberty, then
wheat, historically, comes chained to tyranny....
Read by Unherd
No comments:
Post a Comment
Je tiens ce blog depuis fin 2005. Tout lecteur peut commenter sous email valide et sous anonymat. Tout peut être écrit mais dans le respect de la liberté de penser de chacun et la courtoisie. Je modère les commentaires.