As Chapter 7 explains, effective writers qualify their claims in order to represent the complexity of reality, on the one hand, and in order to make their task simpler, on the other—after all, it is...

As Chapter 7 explains, effective writers qualify their claims in order to represent the complexity of reality, on the one hand, and in order to make their task simpler, on the other—after all, it is generally much easier to provide sufficient support for a qualified claim than for one that is not qualified in some way. How does Bittman qualify his claims? Make a list of places in the article where he qualifies a claim and/or acknowledges a counterargument before seeking to demonstrate that his perspective is the better one.