I was reminded of this when I read a recent headline in the NYT: “Harris injects wine into politics.” But there's really no “injecting” to be done. Food (regular readers know I include wine under that broad umbrella) is political.
Necessary to our lives in the “polis,” there is, therefore, no politics without food. And food is by nature political — what we grow, how we grow it, how we harvest it, how we transport it, how we adulterate it, how we package it, how we market it, how we price it, how we cook it, how we eat it, how we waste it. Kamala Harris, we learn from the article, cooks.
She eats. And she drinks wine. (She laughs, she dances — just imagine!) Alex Prud'homme, author of “Dinner With the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” says, I don't think there has been anybody who understands the power of cooking quite like Kamala.
” Harris, the article continues, “has taken a particular interest in food issues like hunger and farm labor. But she also turns to cooking as a meditation.” She says “Everything else can be crazy, I can be on six planes in one week, and what makes me feel normal is making Sunday night family dinner.
” If elected, she'll break the spell of eight years under non-wine-drinking presidents. And wine-drinking is more than just a casual thing for her. Kahlid Pitt of D.
C.'s Cork Wine Bar, says “She can talk about different varietals. She can talk about differences between California .