"Against Joie de Vivre" by Philip Lapote, Ploughshares, 1986
"I am saved from such culinary paganism by the fact that food is largely an indifferent matter to me. I rarely think much about what I am putting in my mouth. Though my savage, illiterate palate has inevitably been educated to some degree by the many meals I have shared with people who care enormously about such things, I resist going any further. I am superstitious that the day I send back a dish at a restaurant, or make a complicated journey to somewhere just for a meal, that day I will have sacrificed my freedom and traded in my soul for a lesser god."
http://www2.fiu.edu/~sabar/enc3311/Against%20Joie%20de%20Vivre.pdf
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