The Rise of the Gastrocrats

The 1% eat out often and well. Maybe too well. A class of American "gastrocrats," as I like to call them, has enabled decadence of the most monstrous kind: dinners with dozens of courses, ideological manifestos and wine pairings so elaborate that the table becomes a veritable forest of glassware. Was prime strip steak and Petrus really that bad?

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