“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.” ArtHomePleasureGroupsSpecialEatingChinaOccasionsCooksAccomplishmentSilverGuestsImpressFinestReservedSpecial OccasionPleasure And Happiness Author:Marcella Hazan
“I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.” PeopleWantWholeMomentsGroupsBabyConversationEatingWhole LifePushingBitesSugarReally GreatDessert Author:Emily Luchetti
“Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!” GroupsHealthyEatingDietsCupcakes Author:Jenna McCarthy
“It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time.” PeopleNeedsLooksTodayTogetherOpportunityForceCommunityIssuesGroupsEatingTraditionBasesPreparationOur TimeAddressesGlobesConsistencySoupOur CommunityCultivationIntersections Author:Sam Kass
“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.” PeopleWayYearsWould BeEnjoyInterestAnimalImpossibleGroupsProductsHabitEatingTraditionalEthnic GroupsEating Habits Author:Gary Player
“I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.” LongKidsAgeYoungEnjoyKnownTakenGroupsMomDrinkHealthyEatingLong TimeFishesMy MomOilGrassYoung AgeVitaminsChoresPowderHealthy FoodEating HealthyGroup Of FriendsBarleyMultivitaminsHealthy Kids Author:Blake Griffin
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.” PeopleAgeHouseCommonClassGroupsTelevisionWasteEatingPerformancesDistanceIncomeInwardUniformsMultitudesConformMoldFreezer Author:Lewis Mumford
“In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.” ChildrenUseHandsSchoolWaterPracticeGroupsMetsEatingOrganizationTreatsDrinkingSouthClubsLocalsTraveledBathroomWashingHygieneDrinking WaterSudan Author:Mandy Moore
“Peter: Where are you two going? Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner? Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured. Christina: Yeah right, you are! Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here. Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you. Peter: Yep! Have fun dying.” WantWellsTwoFunGroupsDyingBattleEatingYeahCleanDinnerBunchMessHaving FunCowardPeterInjuredTrisChristinaEating Dinner Author:Veronica Roth
“And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.” StillsIdeasGroupsExampleProveEatingSittingBraverySettingSettingsAcceptableSetting An ExampleActs Of Bravery Author:Anneli Rufus