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“One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.”

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Author:Naomi Klein

“What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”

“The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.”

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Author:Ogden Nash

“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.”

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Author:Leigh Hunt

“If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.”

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”

Matter Hard Loss Inspiring Food Citizens Ears Fellows Arguing Nutrition Belly Weight Loss

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.”

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Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.”

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Author:Kat Dennings

“As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.”

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Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.”

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Book:The Physiology of Taste

Source: The Physiology of Taste

“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism