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**AriaDesser** · 02-24-2009, 08:38 PM

I agree.

One noteworthy thing was how sauce was perceived as separate and distinct from the pasta -- only to meet in the diner's dish -- rather than married in the pan. Is this insensitivity based on a deep puritanical defect -- an aversion to intimate comingling? An unhealthy artifact of a rigorous scientific lens which seeks to know things in isolation rather than context?

Though very conscious of a type of analytical bias, Gladwell is conspicuously blind to wider implications of these hidden assumptions.

Cultural ignorance and insensitivity are in large measure the cause of unappreciated diversity.

02-24-2009, 08:38 PM	#23
AriaDesser Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	I agree. One noteworthy thing was how sauce was perceived as separate and distinct from the pasta -- only to meet in the diner's dish -- rather than married in the pan. Is this insensitivity based on a deep puritanical defect -- an aversion to intimate comingling? An unhealthy artifact of a rigorous scientific lens which seeks to know things in isolation rather than context? Though very conscious of a type of analytical bias, Gladwell is conspicuously blind to wider implications of these hidden assumptions. Cultural ignorance and insensitivity are in large measure the cause of unappreciated diversity.
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