Ozempic has curbed the obesity crisis. Has it killed the joy of food?

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If anyone could be called a gastronome, it was American writer AJ Liebling. “The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite,” he observed. His wasn’t good, it was gargantuan. One meal he documented in Paris in 1955 started with Alsatian wine paired with trout “doused with enough melted butter to thrombose a regiment of Paul Dudley…