Thank you @yourdietitianbff 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Food elitism isn’t about health. Don't let the "wellness" charlatans fool you. The book she’s reading the passage from is: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings <<“Spices begin to pour into Europe," explains Krishnendu Ray, an associate professor of food studies at New York University. "What used to be expensive and exclusive became common." Serving richly spiced stews was no longer a status symbol for Europe's wealthiest families — even the middle classes could afford to spice up their grub. "So the elite recoiled from the increasing popularity of spices," Ray says. "They moved on to an aesthetic theory of taste. Rather than infusing food with spice, they said things should taste like themselves. Meat should taste like meat, and anything you add only serves to intensify the existing flavors." The shift began in France, in the mid-1600s, adds Paul Freedman, a professor of history at Yale University. "It was a way to also show off the wealth of the French provinces," Freedman says.>> https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking If you'd like more info on why these seed oil claims are fear based and not fact based, please check out my veg/seed oils highlight. #factsnotfear #seedoil #vegetableoil #canolaoil #foodmyths #wellness #health #foodelitism #healthism #nutrition #foodscience #science #scicomm #scicommunity