I’ve never been able to decide if nostalgia is a first- or second- or third-rate emotion. First- and third-rate seem rather strong terms for what is essentially wooziness of mind, so we’ll have to settle for second. This is also less debilitating for the multitudes in our midst who suffer from nostalgia.
Today nostalgia is making a comeback. Confining our inquiry to the food field, let us think about, or shrink away from, all the edibles peddled to us in the name of old-fashioned goodness, made with tender loving care, farm and/or garden freshness, and so on. (All the more remarkable since the greater the appeal to nostalgia, the more certain we can be that the item in question is the product of S*C*I*E*N*C*E. Products that are actually made the old-fashioned way keep their hideous out-of-dateness well under wraps.)
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