Supermarket+Pastoral

"Supermarket Pastoral is a most seductive literary form, beguiling enough to survive in the face of a great many discomforting facts. I suspect that's because it gratifies some of our deepest, oldest longings, not merely for safe food, but for a connection to the earth and the handful of domesticated creatures we've long depended on" (Pollan 224).

"The twentieth-century prestige of technology and convenience combined with advances in marketing to push aside butter to make shelf space for margarine, replace fruit juice with juice drinks and then entirely juice-free drinks like Tang, cheese with Cheez Whiz, and whipped cream with Cool Whip." (91)