Sathnam Sanghera recently had a little rant in the Times about his dislike of the marketeer’s notion that everything handmade is superior to anything made by machine.
Just what is ‘hand-reared’ beef or lamb?
I find the idea of ‘hand-made crisps’ to be positively disturbing, conjuring up as it does the vision of some poor operative holding very gingerly a slice of potato between the tips of thumb & forefinger & dipping it into a vat of boiling oil.
