VEGGIES

Andrews insults, puts down and ridicules Barbara Wong, a vegetarian who wrote him for advice.

I wonder what buttons she pushed in his gut. He tells her she’s “silly,” and to stop annoying waiters with her “principles.” I guess that means that George Bernard Shaw, Leonardo Da Vinci, Gandhi and I are “silly” too, and that the red-blooded, cholesterol-laced, cardiac Americans, “carnivores” as he puts it, being in the majority, have a right to treat a minority with contempt and worse.

In my book, that’s called fascism, and speaking of books, Andrews’ is now in my garbage can.

RACHEL ROSENTHAL

Los Angeles

Somehow, we don’t think Rosenthal will be buying Carnivorous Colman’s upcoming book, “Catalan Cuisine.” And speaking of fascism, that reminds us: Adolf Hitler was also a vegetarian.