Luis Pedro

“There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“With cooking, plants and animals became the raw materials for food, not food itself.”
― Rachel Laudan, Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

“In the United States, rejuvenation fever exploded in the 1920s, when a patent-medicine salesman named John Brinkley popularized an operation that basically involved implanting fresh goat testicles into the scrota of worn-out middle-aged men.”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“On 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God’s love for humankind.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind