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“One day a customer asked Ettie what she was making for dinner. "Food," she answered without hesitation.”

Book:The Smartest Woman I Know

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“, Grandmother had the eye; the gift of clairvoyance. I don’t mean she ran a psychic hotline or could tell neighbors where their lost dog went. I mean she had the power to see – she could look at a pan of leftovers and tell exactly, to the spoonful, what size container was needed to store it in the fridge.”

Humor Family Food Southern

Book:It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

Source: It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

“Dancing also helped me make this change. If food and I had been battling, so had my body and I. In the culture I grew up in, the messages were so powerful that my girlfriends and I were wearing girdles to school by the time we were in junior high. When I began to dance, the old battle—me versus my body—was transformed. Instead of being just a problem to reshape and control, my body became a source of satisfaction and pleasure.”

Feminism Food

Book:Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

Source: Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

“What we eat is determined by the food around us, its price and how it's marketed--that is what needs to change.”

Food Health Eating Climate Change Nonfiction Obesity Dieting

Author:Chris van Tulleken

“Since we are born with strong tendences to be sensitive to others’ emotional expressions, we are less likely to consume foods when we perceive disgust in others as they consume those foods.”

Food Evolution Emotions Disgust Social Animal

Book:A Guide to the Psychology of Eating

Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating

“It would be squash fritters, squash pudding, pierogies stuffed with squash until autumn. Every year they ate squash until they were sick of it.”

Food

Book:Goblin Market

Source: Goblin Market

“At the dinner table... CALVIN, looking like an x-ray version of himself: Bombarded by high energy photons, Calvin is transformed into a living x-ray. CALVIN: Although this condition will facilitate future medical diagnoses, it does make Calvin's presence at the dinner table a disgusting ordeal. CALVIN: Everyone can see Calvin's food being ground into mushy pulp and swallowed! At this moment, Calvin chews up a large spoonful of creamed corn! CALVIN'S DAD, leaning in at the dinner table: For gosh sakes, close your mouth when you chew!! You think we want to SEE that? CALVIN, physically back to normal, except that his mouth is open amazingly wide, with full view of his current mouthful: MKGHH! SMACK! BLAGHKH!”

Children Humor Kids Food Meals Satire

Book:Yukon Ho!

Source: Yukon Ho!

“Cinnamon, I realized, is the flavor equivalent of being hugged by your grandmother.”

Food Grandmother Cozy Comfort Food Cinnamon

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

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

“It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin.”

Food Summer Shanghai

Book:Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

Source: Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

“I keep telling myself That you’re just a girl. Another leaf blown across my path Destined to pass on And shrivel into yourself Like all the others. Yet despite my venom You refuse to wither Or fade. You remain golden throughout, And in your gaze I am left to wonder if it is me alone Who feels the fall.”

Love Poetry Isobel Varen

Book:Enshadowed

Source: Enshadowed

“What screamed self-care more than adorable food and reliving your life- defining trauma?”

Humor Food Trauma Sarcasm Self Care Rh Killers And Kings Leigh Kelsey

Book:Crazed Candy

Source: Crazed Candy

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