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...California, Berkeley. As you would expect from that résumé, he writes like an academic - but that's not to say the book is bloodless. Patel has a highly developed historical sense of why we eat as we do, and if readers who have enough food understand how that surfeit originated, the more likely they are, he hopes, to make decisions that help others who go hungry...
Spend some time in the hotels, restaurants and even newsstands of Western Europe these days, and as an American you understand pretty quickly that you're poorer than you once were. To be precise, you're 40% poorer--to go by the dollar-euro exchange rate--than you were six years...
...harder to understand why this should be. Currencies rise and fall over time because countries really do get richer and poorer. Dig something valuable up from under the ground, or devise products or services that people value, and your money will be worth more. Let your industries fall behind, or allow inflation to debase the value of your money, and its global standing will decline...
...grittiest ones.Instead, the sites that were most appealing to me captured both of the city’s aesthetic extremes—modern ugliness and ethereal classicism—in microcosm. In doing so, they served as solitary points of departure from which I could begin to understand Beijing as a whole.I found that kind of beauty, for instance, at Jianguomen, an ancient astronomical observatory. The rooftop collection of huge, rusted telescopes and instruments is itself surrounded by skyscrapers, and the building also serves as the entrance to one of Beijing’s largest subway stations.The result...
...that compel the Parisians to exclusively smoke Lucky Strikes (and the Americans to smoke Gauloises, which the French largely eschew). Plus, the problem with a bunch of French bands is that they perform in English. It’s not that the preposterously bilingual French can’t understand the lyrics; it’s more that adopting English constitutes a sort of insult against the mother tongue.And of course, most of our own prejudices against shitty American pop songs are elitist and unfounded. The French understand hooks and love songs that only 12-year-old girls can admit...