“Anything they have to advertise is something you don’t need.”
― The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
― The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
“There is a lot more religion in science than you might expect.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Children have a tendency to behave as poorly as the most poorly behaved kid in the room. The laws of physics dictate that if there is a kid screaming and running in the hallway of a hotel, all the other children will scream and run in the hallway of the hotel.”
― Dad Is Fat
― Dad Is Fat
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“But I contend that most of what we’re consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we’re consuming it—in the car, in front of the TV, and, increasingly, alone—is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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