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“Everyone loves Zoe’s hair: teachers, waiters, bus drivers, strangers on the subway. And the ones who don’t know about the biting will even try to touch it.”

Book:The Doughnut Fix

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“The meal was two and a half hours of indulgence. Gallimard had chosen common, traditional dishes for them, but each dish was the response to this challenge, an implied promise that this would be the best sole, the best duck they would ever have. The dessert would be the one they felt wistful about someday when they couldn't have dessert.”

Food

Book:The Bomb Maker

Source: The Bomb Maker

“We think about how our food will impact our bodies, but what about how it impacts our planet?”

Environment Food Health Climate Change Sustainability Veganism Vagan

Author:Freequill

“...despite seemingly scientific origins, dietary ideals are cultural, subjective, and political. While its primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to ‘eat right’ inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects, and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class.”

Food Health Nutrition Diet Culture Food Politics

Book:Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

Source: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

“But that cold soup stayed with me. It resonated, waking me up, making me aware of my tongue, and in some way, preparing me for future events.”

Food Cooking Soup Food Writing Food Memories

Book:Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Everything was different now. Everything. I'd not only survived - I'd enjoyed.”

Change Food Eating Food Writing Oysters Food Memories

Book:Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years!”

Food Conversation Cooking Chef Food Writing Restaurant

Book:Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too.”

Feminism Food

Book:Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

Source: Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

“Everyone is in such a good mood when they've eaten well.”

Food Dinner Good Food Dinner Party Food Love Foodie Good Mood Eating Well Table

Book:Vocation of a Gadfly

Source: Vocation of a Gadfly

“At General Dexterity, I was contributing to an effort to make repetitive labor obsolete. After a trainer in the Task Acquisition Center taught an arm how to do something, all the arms did it perfectly, forever, In other words, you solved a problem once, and then you moved on to other more interesting things. Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested. Thus, the problem was ongoing. Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.”

Problem Process Food Cooking Programming Baking Solution

Book:Sourdough

Source: Sourdough

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