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Tue 05 May 2004Striking a balanceEXTREME CUISINE Haydn ShaughnessyThe Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain might seem a strange place to start a discussion about food but in the days when marching, rather than fighting, was a popular way for crowds to behave, the politics of food was a topic of conversation up there with the really significant debates: Vietnam, equality, the Bomb, yoghurt.The scientist who detonated the first atom bomb must have thought: "I know pretty much all there is to know about this atomic stuff. Except I don't know what it looks like, yet."