Gluten
is a large part of the human diet, found in nearly every food all around the
world. Around 1% of the populations suffer from celiac disease meaning that
they cannot eat gluten for risk of serious illness, or even death. Currently
around 30% of the American population avoids eating gluten in their everyday
life. Jeffrey Steingarten investigates the reason for avoiding gluten and just
what is in gluten in his article Is true happiness possible without gluten?.
Steingarten is a food critic for Vogue magazine, and has won countless awards
for his monthly articles for the magazine. The article was written for the
vogue magazine audience, which is something that I found peculiar. When I think
of Vogue I think of people who are incredibly into fashion and the latest
trends, and one of the latest trends is to eat a gluten free diet. I found it
interesting that Steingarten would write an article that primarily bashes
gluten-free diets in a magazine where most of the audience is probably involves
in the gluten free diets. The purpose of the article was for Steinberg to give
his own opinion on the Gluten free diet culture. Steingarten attempts to
achieve his purpose was through the use of a counterargument. He writes about
one time when he tried a gluten free treat and admitted it was “all in all
scrumptious” but he then proposes that it was most due to the fact that “the original never contained much flour
anyway” this effective counter-argument lets the reader know that some gluten
free food are probably tasty, but in most cases it is because it was never a
high glutinous food to begin with. I believe that Steingarten kind of missed
the mark on his purpose. He failed to acknowledge all of the people who might
chose a gluten free lifestyle instead he just groups them all as ‘Food phobic”
this is reason enough for me to believe that he failed in really capturing the
gluten free lifestyle choice.link to article:
http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/is-true-happiness-possible-without-gluten/#1
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