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“It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.”
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“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.”
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“The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.”
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“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
Food Studies: the scholarship of what and how we eat
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Searching for scholarship on food and literature, it might seem that few texts exist and many related discussions are issue driven rather than discurs ...more
Louis’s 2025 Year in Books
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