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“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
― Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
― Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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