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A Short History of the American Stomach

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Barbecue Porn: Using Sexual Innuendo to Enjoy Good Food

02 min 59 sec

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Fred Kaufman reads an excerpt from his book A Short History of the American Stomach and describes the media's portrayal of food using sexual innuendo. It's called "food porn."
The Eating Habits of Americans

02 min 14 sec

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Fred Kaufman, author of A Short History of the American Stomach, explains the American obsession with improving and altering eating habits.
Genetically Modified Foods and the Future

03 min 18 sec

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Fred Kaufman asserts that genetically modified food is not only here to stay, but also the greenest way to handle food production in the future.
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Mosscat

Posted: 10.16.09, 07:55 PM

Food network dissappoints me because so few of their shows anymore are about food, they are all drama shows. GM Foods are yummy and I especially like them because they seem to annoy hippies and leftists and Europeans. Pass the Lucky Charms!

surik

Posted: 03.16.09, 01:26 PM

so GM plants are created by the same process as the domestication of plants? does he really think people believe such a obvious lie? inform yourself. GM foods will never feed the world, but will surely feed the greedy biotech corporations.

rocketdog

Posted: 03.06.08, 01:00 PM

I don't know about Kaufman's whole "gastroporn" premise. I'm with him as far as Rachel Ray and Giada De Laurentis - obvious sexuality hooks there - but I'm not so sure you can take that concept and apply it to the Food Network as a whole. How would he categorize Alton Brown, the Bill Nye of cooking and my favorite FN host? That guy's about as sexual as a Smurf.

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