Financial Times writer Emily Stokes recently had lunch with Jonathan Safran Foer at Gobo, a vegan restaurant on Sixth Ave. She seemed to find his personality as distasteful as their meal. His "Rejuvenate" juice, she writes, was "the color of manure." [FT]
Foer seems quite passive and colorless; there's nothing to react to except the smugness. Perhaps this is calculated. And perhaps he just needs to cook a fucking steak, because that seitan sounds disgusting.
i waffle between pancakes of ambivalence. the top flapjack is a happy, buttery heaven where i think about food and it's glory. the nether griddle crepe is a crusty self-loathing baked good in which i hate food and think of it only as fuel.
i am conflicted, like a scone.
Smug Vegan is redundant.
JSF is a vegetarian, not vegan. If he were vegan he'd be harder not to take seriously. But not much.
The food at Gobo is fine, albeit unlikely to satisfy serious carnivores.
I really like Gobo. And I know plenty of carnivores who like it fine, too. But perhaps they aren't serious. One imagines a "serious" carnivore to be one of those boy-men who won't eat vegetables.
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic.
It's amazing. It sounds like Foer didn't even bother to listen to the gist of what Stokes was arguing: most folks who go vegetarian out of moral or political concern still have to worry about the uneasy choices between small vs. industrial, local vs. not-local, and organic vs. pesticide-y time and time again.
I don't care what Foer or Stokes say, Gobo's fake meat is fucking tasty.
I think most ethical vegetarians are just trying to suck less. They're pretty aware that it's pretty fucking hard -- you know, as functioning humanoids in a first-world nation -- stop sucking entirely. But folks are really quick to blast them for lack of perfection on that front in a way that makes them seem worse for even trying*. You know, like the way the press jumps down the throat of Democrats who are rich -- OMG! He wants to give more money to the food stam program, but he WINDSURFS!!!
*Not saying you're doing that.
ugh: +to, +p
STRONGLY AGREE
Also, the triple washed greens with poo vs. the triple washed greens without poo.
@Dickdogfood: I eat meat but humanely and locally raised - I love vegetarian food and fake meat (OMG Tempeh Bacon!) and eat very healthy.
I just hate ideology.
But yes "Gobo's fake meat is fucking tasty."
It was a close race, but I found Stokes to be the more smug and off-putting of the two.
But she hasn't published a flick book about 9/11