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“The journey of food, from forest or field to plate to being, is full of wonder and magic. It grows, nourishes, and sustains us in ways that are both miraculous and often taken for granted. Becoming attentive and, as an inevitable result, grateful deepens our awareness of and appreciation for life and the responsibility that we each have to care for the world around us.”

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Book:The Little Book of Big Life Change: A Nine-Part Journey to Feeling Whole
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“The time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, farmers there were harvesting more than a hundred kinds of edible plants–potatoes, tomatoes, sunflowers, marrows, aubergines, avocados, a whole slew of beans and squashes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, cashews, pineapples, papaya, guava, yams, manioc (or cassava), pumpkins, vanilla, four types of chilli pepper and chocolate, among rather a lot else–not a bad haul. It has been estimated that 60 per cent of all the crops grown in the world today originated in the Americas. These foods weren’t just incorporated into foreign cuisines. They effectively became the foreign cuisines. Imagine Italian food without tomatoes, Greek food without aubergines, Thai and Indonesian foods without peanut sauce, curries without chillies, hamburgers without French fries or ketchup, African food without cassava. There was scarcely a dinner table in the world in any land to east or west that wasn’t drastically improved by the foods of the Americas.”

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Book:At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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