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“It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.”

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Book:Cinnamon and Gunpowder

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“Humans look just like livestock now. We achieve a state of buttery plumpness before we've even reached sexual maturity. We experience powerful cravings for food that is slowly making us sick. We are...programmed to eat the wrong food. We aren't born calorie zombies, but that's what we have become.”

Food Health Calories

Book:The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

“...the question of portion size. When I ate Doritos or a Big Mac, I dept on eating and eating, and later experienced McRegret. So why when I ate a fourteen-week-old barred rock [heirloom breed chicken] or a grapefruit did I find it tremendously delicious and yet tremendously satisfying? If these foods tasted better, shouldn't I have just kept on gorging? Fred Provenza believes the difference comes down to what he calls "deep satiety." "Fundamentally," he told me, "eating too much is an inability to satiate." Wen food meets needs at "multiple levels," it provides a feeling of "completeness" and offers a satisfaction that's altogether different from being stuffed.”

Food Health Eating Satisfaction Junk Food

Book:The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

“Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner.” “And?” “And what? It was the most revolting lunch it has been my misfortune to consume.” “And after?” “Diarrhea, of course.”

Food Diarrhea

Book:Still Life With Crows

Source: Still Life With Crows

“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

Poetry Beauty Melancholy

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Don't just live your life, set it on fire!”

Inspiration Sex Relationships Marriage Food Humour Cooking Honeymoon

Book:The Honeymooner's Cookbook

Source: The Honeymooner's Cookbook

“Savour life's pleasures in abundance”

Sex Relationships Food Humour

Book:The Honeymooner's Cookbook

Source: The Honeymooner's Cookbook

“There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.”

Food Cooking French Cuisine Provence Food Establishment

Author:Richard Olney

“Starla, when you work in a restaurant, it’s not called ‘pie with ice cream on top.’ It’s called pie a la mode. Try saying it one time.” “A-la-mo,” she pronounced. “There’s a good girl,” Darius said, grinning. “The next time you ask a customer if he wants some dessert, you ask him if he wants pie Alamo.”

Food Pie Ice Cream

Book:Cut

Source: Cut

“In Tuzla, erzählt sie, gebe es Kinder, die noch nie eine Portion Pommes frites gesehen haben. Hach, denke ich, so viel Elend auf der Welt. "Und Sie", frage ich, "schon mal eine Portion Pilav gesehen?" Sie stutzt. "What’s Pilav?" "Fastfood"‚ sage ich. "Landestypisch." Das habe ich von der Menütafel an der Wand in ihrem Rücken abgelesen. Sie wechselt das Thema.”

Food Prejudice Worldview Western World Bosnia And Herzegovina

Author:Juli Zeh

“This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.”

Peace Justice Environment Feminism Food Vegetarian Rape Militarism

Book:The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Source: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

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