Not because he was a foodie (no one was in 1986) but simply because he could remember a time when food did not come pre-packed, frozen and reshaped so that it bore no visual resemblance to its animal origin.
And as Le Corbusier moved into larger-scale designs, he began to leave his concrete rough and unfinished on the outside, so that it bore the imprint of the wooden forms involved in its construction.
I've said it before, but this programme is proving so frustrating that it bears repeating.
This spit of town is so isolated that it bears little relation to the aggro-hip clusters in next-door Williamsburg, to say nothing of the melting-pot bustle just a block away, on Manhattan Avenue, which practically constitutes a different borough.
Much of my fashion 'photography' is now so crafted that it bears more resemblance to a painting, it's not just record of the reality I had in front of me in the studio it is captured with the deliberate intention to create the elements I need to work with to realize the final imagery I have in my head.
It is a fact so simple, so obvious, so in character, that it bears declaration only because of this feverish moment in the life of the city.
Sunday's loss was so complete, the play so poor, the fight so absent, that it bore almost no resemblance to the Patriots of yore.
Under Gartenberg, a mutual fund adviser violates the 1970 law only if it charges a fee "that is so disproportionately large that it bears no reasonable relationship to the services rendered and could not have been the product of arm's-length bargaining".
Under those so-called Gartenberg principles, Justice Alito wrote, mutual fund directors have breached their "fiduciary duty" only when an adviser's fee is "so disproportionately large that it bears no reasonable relationship to the services rendered and could not have been the product of arm's length bargaining".
