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...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day. ↗

— Geneen Roth

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There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? ↗

— Frances Mayes

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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter." Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird." Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #eat #family #family-reunion #food

Leave the gun. Take the Cannoli. ↗

— Peter Clemenza

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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ↗

— Frederic Raphael

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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#food-for-thought #meat #food

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. ↗

— James Beard

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