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“I've swallowed fish-eyes whole like an endoscope. I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.”

Book:Dawn of the Algorithm

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“Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.”

Film Time Process Media Food Television Cooking Metaphor Screenwriting Script Production Recipe Director Microwave Solange Nicole The Footage Presents

Author:Solange nicole

“Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.”

Food Sheep English Food Cistercians

Author:Clarissa Dickson Wright

“By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.”

Food Dairy English Food Tudor England

Book:A History of English Food

Source: A History of English Food

“Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as the English vice in the same way that lust was the French one and drunkenness that of the Germans (although looking at the amount of alcohol consumed in England, I expect the English probably ran a close second to the Germans).”

Food Overeating English Food

Book:A History of English Food

Source: A History of English Food

“But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.”

Food Cooking Cooks Chicken

Book:My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

“Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.”

Values Food Eating Sustainability Agriculture

Book:The One-Straw Revolution

Source: The One-Straw Revolution

“I've never seen anyone get so excited by breakfast before." "Are you serious? It's the most important meal of the day. Sometimes, at bedtime, I plan what I'm going to make for breakfast and then get so excited I can't sleep.”

Food Humour Breakfast

Book:Soulmates

Source: Soulmates

“Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.”

Food Vegetarian

Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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