Example sentences for: mintz

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  • Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their "authenticity" and ends in "bowdlerization."

  • The blue-plate specials typically offered as "American cuisine"--hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken, baked beans, hot dogs--aren't worth considering, Mintz says, despite such "irrepressible enthusiasts" as Edna Lewis and Betty Fussell.

  • Mintz quotes some astonishing speeches by Abolitionists who easily equated cane sugar with murder, one of them even providing the precise calculus: "[I]n every pound of sugar used (the product of the slaves imported from Africa), we may be considered as consuming two ounces of blood."

  • None of Mintz's other chapters is quite as satisfying as the three devoted to sugar.

  • Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no "cuisine."


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