{"id":395,"date":"2009-04-06T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/why_art_critics_are_better_for\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T02:00:04","slug":"why_art_critics_are_better_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/why_art_critics_are_better_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Why art critics are better for you than food critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first cookbook was Adelle Davis’ Let’s Eat Right To Keep Fit<\/i><\/a> from 1970. Following her, I made casseroles that tasted like axle grease, cookies in tough blocks and watery messes with milk. (Davis might not be entirely to blame. I am not celebrated for my ability to follow  a recipe.)<\/p>\n

\"rooneyjade.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>I was reminded of my first stab at cooking by Bay Area painter Rooney
\nO’Neil, whom I’ve known since college. I married her brother, which is
\nwhy the top image in her photo of a part of her wall features her niece
\nand mine, Jade O’Neil, when Jade was about two, with a Bruce Davidson image from 1965 at the bottom. (Click to enlarge.)<\/p>\n

Jade’s now 18. Time does
\nrun on.<\/p>\n

Rooney O’Neil wrote in a recent email:<\/p>\n

I first learned about nutrition from her too, and drank her yeast glop for years. As one researcher<\/a> pointed out, in 1974, she stopped saying that anyone who drank a quart of milk a day would not die of cancer, when she died of cancer. <\/p>\n

She got many things right, she got many things wrong. Not just her recipes, but her “cures.” I did like this comment, from DayLily02<\/a>:
\n“In a sub-chapter, titled, Eat the Superior Meats Most Often<\/i>, we learn that “the housewife who wishes to maintain maximum health in her family is wise to serve glandular meats at least once or twice a week.<\/i><\/p>\n

“OK–so the brain is not a gland, but apparently it is a rich source of the B vitamin cholin. Here’s what Davis says about cooking them, Since brains are so frequently disliked, I have tried to work out recipes especially for those persons who sincerely wish to develop an enjoyment of them. If time permits, first freeze them in an ice tray…<\/i> (because cube-shaped brains are less repulsive than brain-shaped brains.) <\/p>\n

“The only thing that sounds less appealing to me than eating a brain, is stuffing it into one of my ice cube trays. Also interesting, Davis never mentions the species on whose brain we’ll be dining. Cow? Pig? Squirrel? What? Then come the recipes: Baked Brains in Bacon Rings, Creamed Brains, Brains in Casserole, Brain Salad,–and my favorite: Brain Sandwich Spread. Because mayonnaise makes anything edible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Art critics might miss the point, but they never advise you to eat brains in ice cube trays.<\/p>\n

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