Comments on: Bread, Not Politics, Rules The Day

By: NJLS

NJLS — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:01:32 +0000

My apologies…I read the posting to express disappointment in popular discussion following the election. As for the recipe, I thank you for pointing it out — I forwarded it along w/ the hopes of it appearing on my family’s Thanksgiving table!

By: Dan Filler

Dan Filler — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:46:55 +0000

NJLS, I must not have been clear. I wasn’t displeased or pessimistic by the popular interest in bread. Indeed, I promptly clipped the recipe as an activity for a cold winter day.

By: kmg

kmg — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:06:34 +0000

Now, Dan, that’s not completely fair. I’ve been looking for a good no-knead bread recipe since before I could vote, and after staying up until nearly 1am to watch returns, I wasn’t in very good shape to do much else.

By: NJLS

NJLS — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:00:47 +0000

Perhaps the picture is not as bleak as you paint it, and perhaps the American electorate doesn’t necessarily need “a break” — perhaps the metric you are relying on is inappropriate. The top 10 most searched terms on the NYT’s website include: election, Iraq, China, North Korea, India, immigration, education, and Saddam. “Bread” is noticeably not listed. There probably is not much of a need to email someone a story about the election, Iraq or North Korea because the major news outlets are covering them extensively.

So cheer up — I doubt we are mired in a “languid state” . . . while we could always use a more informed, active, and concerned electorate, I would be hesitant to base such wide-sweeping pessimism on an emailed recipe.