And this one: "American chain restaurants and agribusiness conglomerates take other cultures’ food and try to make it taste like a TV dinner. And, unfortunately, they usually succeed."

T.S. Eliot once remarked that "the great invention of agribusiness is to provide tasteless tomatoes out of season." You and I of course have been roundly criticized on these pages for our Southern Agrarian sympathies, for encouraging others to plant a vegetable garden in the back yard, or to cultivate fresh flowers for the altar, to replace the vulgar exhibitionism of the exercise craze with some honest, hard work associated with tilling and lifting the soil. ( Afterall, scripture reminds us that no less a man than Essau was a hairy creature who smelled like a billy-goat!) And of course our economic friends, who can quantify even the value of their Grandmother's silverware, say it is not efficient to raise your own chickens and hogs or, I would guess by now, even your own children. "Get big or get out" was Nixons Ag. Secretary's advice. Such advice has always lead ciivilzations to the same conclusion--- Nine eighty-nine, no doggie bags—something for which Rover and his handlers can now be thankful,indeed!! Long Live Mrs.Lee!!