Ancestors

Written by B Haas on 2025-01-04 at 19:53

I am reading a textbook with authors from Harvard and they are insufferable. Also wrong. And they get to carry on in their wrongness because Harvard

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Written by B Haas on 2025-01-04 at 20:00

The book I'm reading describes a class on the science of food and it's one pretentious name drop after another. Yes, haute cuisine can be really cool, but it's a very one-percenter take to highlight all of that without any acknowledgement of, say, food insecurity or the importance (and science) of the humble can in keeping people fed

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Toot

Written by B Haas on 2025-01-04 at 20:06

Also the authors can't seem to help themselves from mentioning every 5 pages that they work at Harvard and this class was happening at Harvard. They called their friends, who happen to be a dozen internationally recognized chefs from places most people can never afford to eat it, and they just dropped by for a few public lectures at - did we mention? - Harvard

How nice

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Descendants

Written by ❄️ Dr. Ferrous ❄️ on 2025-01-04 at 20:09

@belehaa reminded me of this scene from Trading Places https://youtu.be/lIjqdRiM3Pc?si=0uUUEBjwrQ7twfEI

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Written by B Haas on 2025-01-04 at 20:11

@DrFerrous Getting very "$10 banana" vibes at times

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Written by ❄️ Dr. Ferrous ❄️ on 2025-01-04 at 20:15

@belehaa LOL

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