3 DECEMBER 1994, Page 40

Foodie fall-out

Sir: Digby Anderson is a joy and a delight. He's a kind of human Catherine wheel' whizzing round and round, furiously firing off squibs in every direction, before coming to rest, burnt out, void and exhausted. However, during that brief incandes- cence there is more flash than illumination, His fulminations (Food, 19 November) were so full of misunderstandings, misrer; resentation and confusion that to correc.f them all would test even the patience 0- Spectator readers. For the record, my colleague Mr Erlich-

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man and I are on the best terms. We com- municate frequently on food issues, and agree to disagree on many of them (although not, as it happens, on the subject of these government recommendations). I was always under the impression that The Spectator, like the Guardian, encour- aged healthy debate even within its own pages. I am surprised that so vigorous an opponent of 'food fascism' as Mr Anderson Should suggest that others should toe the line of monolithic solidarity. Matthew Fort The Guardian,

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