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“Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.”

Ifs Turns Boys Food Amount Beats Cooking Eggs Culinary Turn-on Future Love

Author:Irena Chalmers

“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

Men Way House Term Wealth Poor Known Land Food Amount Habit Cooking Stores One Way Guarantees Culinary Wealthy Estates Medieval Peppers Pantry Medieval Times

Author:Waverley Root

“Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.”

People World Wells Kind Pain Food Amount Crosses Tired Debt Hungry Worried Satisfying Soup Moderates Robust

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.”

Humans Three Human Beings Four Food Amount Benefits Cooking Wine Glasses Illness Excellent Culinary Remedy Preservation Small Amounts

Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”

Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.”

Half Food Produce Huge Amount Fuel Zone Pollution Fossils Corn Corny Fossil Fuel Contributing Poisoning Erosion Gallons Burning Fossil Fuels Food Poisoning Dead Zone

Author:Michael Pollan

“It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.”

People Ifs Country Used Subjects Food Amount Drink Consequence Increase Notes Coffee Beer Quantity Disgusting

Author:Frederick The Great

“Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.”

Has Beens Culture Food Amount Cooking Assuming Appearance Poison Culinary Delay Nourishment Small Amounts

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”

“The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals”

“I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.”

Thinking Real Used Dying Food Products Fine Amount Cooking Enormous Culinary Competing Mexican Fast Food Supermarkets Cuisine

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto