"Food porn" from the the NYT Book Review.

While puttering around the kitchen to prepare a pot of Cincinnati-style chili for Super Bowl Sunday, I picked up a two-week old New York Times Book Review and read something really funny, as reported by Dwight Garner in "TBR: Inside the List":

Michael Pollan’s slim new book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” enters the nonfiction list at No. 1. It’s Pollan’s third book to appear here in hardcover, after “The Botany of Desire” (2001) and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (2006). On NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” a few weeks ago, Pollan deplored the “heroic” cooking on many food shows.

“They make it look really hard,” he said. “You know, it’s like watching too much pornography. You think that that’s how sex is done, and it’s kind of intimidating.”

Nothing heroic about chopping two onions, opening a few cans, adding spices and a beer, and dumping all of it into a pot to simmer while I continue reading and sipping tea.

What was that about sex?