I confess when everyone started talking about Paula Deen this past week, I had a moment or two of complete cultural disconnect.
Who?
Oh, she writes cookbooks and does a show on Food Network. Hm. So what?
I’m still not altogether sure what she did, what trial she spoke at where she rather obliviously let it be known that she thinks using the N-word is just fine. I’m not really interested enough in her—or any other cooking personality—to give much of a damn. I don’t read cookbooks (I have several, I couldn’t tell you who wrote them) and I don’t watch Food Network (we don’t have cable or dish), so this is a part of the popular zeitgeist of which I am rather oblivious.…