![]() ![]() ![]() And ideological fracturing: Fox News and MSNBC, as everyone knows, profit by preaching to their respective choirs. The Chicago Tribune used to cover the Midwest now it covers Chicago, barely. ![]() Media trends aren’t helping the situation. In uncertain times the tribes gather close. That’s a problem in America, where we increasingly live in separate information silos. Ideas-particularly political ideas-are meant to be shared, to redefine themselves over the blue flame of discussion. What’s true about food is true of ideas: they get better when they’re adjacent in the pan. In the South proper, it is a crippling blow to the intestine.” He goes on to discuss the many varied influences that make New Orleans such a delicious cultural gumbo. Liebling and a companion stop at a joint north of New Orleans that promises “Shrimp, BarBQue, PoBoy” but delivers heartbreak: “The BarBQue was out, the shrimps stiff with inedible batter, the coffee desperate.” As for the PoBoy, the traditional fried meat or seafood submarine, Liebling reaches a sad conclusion: “A PoBoy at Mumfrey’s in New Orleans is a portable banquet. ![]() Specifically, he asks why food is so great in New Orleans and so bad sixty miles or so to the north. Liebling takes many a detour on his way to explaining that state, and in one of them he talks food. In his wonderful book, The Earl of Louisiana, A. ![]()
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