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To: Jamestown1630

Yay! Can we go after “deconstructed” too? I hate that word, especially when used in culinary context.


53 posted on 08/24/2020 4:47:06 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Proud father of my angel son Jon...)
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To: IrishPennant

You’ll have to argue with Derrida over that - I never paid much attention, except to rail against the ultimately meaningless gobbledygook of words.

(But it IS amazing how many academics, over the last couple of decades, have made a lot more money than I - and perhaps you - have ever made, by filling young brains with nonsense. Deconstruction may have some weird, narrow usefulness somewhere in the study of language and semiotics; but beyond - and perhaps even including - those, I think it will ultimately come to no good and a fool’s errand.)

I’ve never seen it used in a ‘culinary’ sense - unless, dumbed-down, it just means examining the various parts, and coming up with viable substitutions.

Cooking is actually a very practical, hands-on, down-to-Earth art; it’s not Ivory Tower, pie-in-the-sky, navel-gazing...:-)


54 posted on 08/24/2020 5:15:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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