“When you are eating all the time, food curiously loses much of its joy, along with its sense of ceremony and sociability.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Before we can resolve our endless quandaries about food - such as ‘where the zucchini came from and how far it had to travel’ - we should first establish the basic paradigm that at certain times, every day, we stop, we sit and we eat.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Source: Prometheus Unbound
“Eating is about food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“What all of us need is to find a way to eat regular meals, to take pleasure in a variety of foods, and to be able to eat them without being consumed by negative emotions.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“As society, we haven’t quite figured out what a new structure for meals would look like that isn’t just a hasty sandwich in the car on the way to something more important.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“In Japan, food filters into every aspect of the culture.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat