Barry Glassner has made it his business to set credulous consumers of mass media straight. His best-known book, “The Culture of Fear,” took apart several stories poised somewhere between urban myth and the lead item on the evening news, arguing that according to statistics, teenage moms aren’t really tearing up the fabric of society, road rage is less of a problem than lightning strikes, and gun control, not building more prisons, might be the best way of stopping violent crime.This time around, Glassner, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, takes the same approach to what we eat. In “The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong,” he promises to blow the lid off your dinner...
...although his book delivers some convincing arguments, Glassner also makes many points that aren’t all that shocking...
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