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“...the question of portion size. When I ate Doritos or a Big Mac, I dept on eating and eating, and later experienced McRegret. So why when I ate a fourteen-week-old barred rock [heirloom breed chic...”
“Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.”
“Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himsel...”
“There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.”
“And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.”
“Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.”
“We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.”
“So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, were mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. Were not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ...”
“prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditionssimple, basic, healthy, balanced.”
“yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. Its simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didnt count or wasnt good, and an hour later were back looking for s...”
“It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war...”
“...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...”
“Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky fle...”
“When I find the guy who torched that forest, I'm going to eat him. And I'm only going to half-cook him first.-Sergeant Schlock”
“When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice cou...”
“Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.”
“Our bodies need a range of frequencies to support good health.”
“I'm not a racist, it's my principle: despite the fact that I'm on a diet and I should eat only white meat I eat also red and dark (I hope this is not a racist words?) with great relish, enjoying ev...”
“The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.”
“A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.”
