Feb 16, 2020
6 min read
Food, or An Unprocessed Childhood
Yesterday brought a Guardian article to my inbox: How ultra-processed foods took over your shopping cart . In it Bee Wilson recalls eating slice after slice of buttered white bread, and whole tubes of sour cream and onion Pringles. It struck a chord: those were two of the specific staples of my late-teens/early-twenties diet — along with SuperNoodles, PopTarts, Papa John’s, Taco Bell, chicken cheesesteaks, Dunkin’ Donuts and…
