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“I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed”

Quote by Gary Lutz

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Gary Lutz

Gary Lutz (born 1955) is an American writer, essayist, and creative writing teacher known for his highly experimental prose style and meticulous attention to sentence structure. His work often explores themes of loneliness, alienation, and the absurdities of everyday life. Lutz is the author of several short story collections, including Stories in the Worst Way and Partial List of People to Bleach. He has taught creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for many years and is regarded as a 'writer's writer' within avant-garde literary circles. His influence extends to the field of experimental fiction and writing pedagogy. more

“Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.”

Food Stealing Decency

Book:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.”

Animal Food Vegetarian Kill Eat

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Goats' refusal of young blackbrush shoots, furthermore, is outright. They want nothing to do with it. Provenza pointed at his hand, then his arm and body, and said, "Every organ and every cell has receptors similar to what's in your nose and on your tongue." Creatures communicate within their environment the same way they communicate within their own bodies -- through chemical trigger substances that bind to receptors and produce responses. "It's all part of a feedback system," Provenza said, "that tells the body what's good and what isn't." Goats are not stupid after all. They don't bumble through the world eating what they were born to like. They experience need states, satisfaction, and delight along with aversions to strong a mere hint of something can make them turn away in disgust. Flavor is what nutrition feels like to a goat. If goats had a word for delicious, it would have two meanings. The first would be: I like this. The second would be: This is what my body needs. For goats, they are the same thing.”

Food Health Instinct Nutrition Delicious Flavor Goats

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

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

“Resistence takes place on many planes. Occasionally it can be dramatic and public, but most of the decisions we are faced with are mundane and private. What to eat is a choice that we make several times a day, if we are lucky. The cumulative choices we make about food have profound implications. Food offers us many opportunities to resist the culture of mass marketing and commodification. Though consumer action can take many creative and powerful forms, we do not have to be reduced to the role of consumers selecting from seductive convenience items. We can merge appetite with activism and choose to involve ourselves in food as cocreators. (Page 27)”