I'll start off with a naked admission: it is a fool's errand to recap the year in food. I mean, it's food. It's like trying to recap the year in breathing, or the year in being protected from the elements. But that's also exactly why we have to try -- food is so fundamental, so vital to our lives and culture that what and how we eat tells us so much about ourselves. And looking at the biggest stories of 2010 tells us that we're a people of passionate extremes, of trends that go off the rails and food fights for which we arm ourselves to the teeth. We go from being vegetarians to butchers, from prim fat-gram-counters to devourers of burgers that pack more calories than an Energon cube. And we drink Four Loko. And so, Salon presents: the food stories that made 2010 so hot, so tasty and so very, very greasy.


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