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NYC: Farewell, French Fries! Hello, Sliced Apples!
NEW YORKS mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, loves popcorn and merlot, but not always at the same time. He watches his weight carefully, but more often than not a hamburger will do for lunch, with maybe a little cream cheese on a cracker for a snack.The mayors a charmer at the dinner parties he gives at his Upper East Side town house, but pot pies, fried chicken and ice cream sundaes are more likely to be on the menu than foie gras and miso-soaked sea bass. In other words, from a culinary point of view, he has sweater-vest taste on a billionaires budget. But from a policy perspective, Mr. Bloomberg has taken on more food issues, and provoked more controversy, than any New York mayor before him. As a result, he has the potential to change the way more New Yorkers eat whether in the haughtiest dining rooms or the poorest home kitchens than all the citys food activists and restaurant critics combined. A lot of what hes doing is likely to be happening nationally over time, said Tim Zagat, the co-founder of the guides that bear his name. The governments involvement in what were eating is going to be increasingly visible as a way to make people healthier. ...Its easy to see a dawning awareness in City Hall that government can help people eat better. But its not as easy to find a singular grand vision, or even much of a pattern, behind the intersection of food and city government. More rampant nannyism at link... Posted by: Dave D. 2007-04-04 |
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