How Fresh Is <i>Too</i> Fresh?

How Fresh IsFresh?

What we eat--our tastes--comprises a mere subset of all the things we might eat (and a particularly small subset, perhaps, for Anglo-Americans) in even that short space between the parentheses. Consider two adjectives that typically connote desirable qualities in food: "fresh" and "aged". (And before you object: I do know that we don't want "aged" yogurt or "aged" fruit--but that's in the nature of those things. Culinarily speaking, "aged" connotes refinement; it is a positive term).

How fresh is too fresh?

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