AH, BUT DID HE WATCH THIS WITH HIS PIPEFITTER BUDS WHILE DRINKING A DOMESTIC BREW FROM A CAN?

Actual tweet from Charles Murray:

IMDb's description of the documentary:

The collar awarded to the winners of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman in France) is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef -- it is a dream and an obsession. The 3-day competition includes everything from delicate chocolates to precarious six foot sugar sculptures and requires that the chefs have extraordinary skill, nerves of steel and luck. The film follows Jacquy Pfeiffer, founder of The French Pastry School in Chicago, as he returns to France to compete against 15 of France's leading pastry chefs. The filmmakers were given first time/exclusive access to this high-stakes drama of passion, sacrifice, disappointment and joy in the quest to have President Sarkozy declare them one of the best in France.

Really? Now that his new book about reminding the proles of the moral benefits of manual labor is slipping off the bestseller list, the heroes of Murray's moral universe are guys who make chocolate swans (or whatever the hell this is)?

I confess I actually like this kind of thing -- I'm a regular Chopped and Top Chef viewer, and foodie food is an occasional splurge. But I thought that made me evil in Murray's eyes. I thought he'd regard the very existence of foodie culture as an abomination. Guess not.

(X-posted at Balloon Juice.)