[Joan C. Williams] Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class literally links morality and political virtue with certain forms of high-intensity food-preparation activities.
Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
class, class-and-virtue, food, morality, status-symbol, upper-middle-class