Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U. S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.