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“In fact, McDonald’s cares so much about uniformity and efficiency that they add a silicon-based polymer to the fryer oil to reduce splatter,15 which cuts down on cleaning time; called dimethylpolysiloxane, the same chemical is also used in head lice treatments, condom lubricants,16 and breast implants.17 How neat is that?”
― The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
― The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
“Death cares little for age or gender, and loss will touch us all at some point. But there's always hope that we may one day greet our loved ones again, whether through faith, magic, or simply our dreams.”
― Family Justice
― Family Justice
“Unless you seize the day, it flees." Even though you seize it, it still will flee; therefore you must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
“Whereas individual human beings can go through life without participating in political acts and without personal liberty and can survive without forming a family or having sex, none of us can go without food. It is the absolute biological necessity of food that makes it so central to cultural history and so inclusive of all peoples in all times.”
― The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
― The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
“The Heir and the Spare—there was no judgment about it, but also no ambiguity. I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B. I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy. I was summoned to provide backup, distraction, diversion and, if necessary, a spare part. Kidney, perhaps. Blood transfusion. Speck of bone marrow. This was all made explicitly clear to me from the start of life’s journey and regularly reinforced thereafter.”
― Spare
― Spare
Lucy’s 2024 Year in Books
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153 books
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0 books
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415 books
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106 books
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