Food writer Josh Ozersky thinks "We like artisanal products not because of quality, morality, or anti-modernism, but — just as the Victorians did — because they are hard to find and a signifier of quality (as opposed to quality itself)." Or you know, as Lewis Black says, because "people are pissing on our legs and telling us it's champagne." [Time]
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