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...this week's New York Times Magazine: The Food Issue. It includes Michael Pollan's "Favorite Food Rules," which Peter mentioned earlier this week, but for me the real pay-off was a lovely, lovely story, "Against Meat," by Jonathan Safran Foer, about how having children can make you confront your paradoxes and your dishonesty--and change your habits: "Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting. But perhaps this kind of forgetfulness is worth accepting — even worth cultivating (forgetting, too, can be cultivated). To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry."