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The Swimming Pool Let me explain. Consider the metaphor in which your teenage daughter is a swimmer, you are the pool in which she swims, and the water is the broader world. Like any good swimmer, your daughter wants to be out playing,
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“DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE. No, a desk is not a table.”
― In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
― In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
“Indeed, the surest way to escape the Western diet is simply to depart the realms it rules: the supermarket, the convenience store, and the fast-food outlet.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“At least until we learn to eat more slowly and attend more closely to the information of our senses, it might help to work on altering the external clues we rely on in eating on the theory that it's probably better to manipulate ourselves than to allow marketers to manipulate us.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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