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  1. Andrew Solomon _ The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of

    Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."
    book-quotelovelifeliving

  2. Terry Pratchett _ Men at Arms

    Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
    book-quotehumorfoodpride

  3. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner? Time spent this way might be easier than cooking but it is not enjoyable & surely not ennobling. It is to feel spiritually unemployed, useless to self & humanity.
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  4. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    Yet, running just beneath the surface of food industry feminism was an implicit anti-feminist message. Then as now, ads for packaged foods are aimed almost exclusively at women and so reinforced the retrograde idea that responsibility for feeding the family fell to mom. The slick new products would help her do a job that was hers & hers alone.
    book-quotefeminismwomenfood

  5. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been "women's work"?
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  6. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    Cheese is all about the dark side of life" - Sister Noella; aka The Cheese Nun
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  7. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.
    book-quotecontrolfoodmonoculture

  8. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    If we're only going to eat the prime cuts of young animals, we're going to have to raise & kill a great many more of them. And indeed, this has become the rule with disastrous results for both the animals & the land... If we are going to eat animals, it behooves us to waste as few and as little as we possibly can. Something that the humble cook-pot allows us to do.
    book-quotephilosophyfoodethics

  9. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    {...}imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.
    book-quotefoodnaturalorganic

  10. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar logic: First this, then that; put this in here, and then out comes that. But the relationship between cows and chickens on this {Polyface} farm...takes the form of a loop rather than a line, and that makes it hard to know where to start, or how to distinguish between causes and effects, subjects and objects. . .Joel would say this is precisely the point, and precisely the distinction between a biological and an industrial system. "In an ecological system like this everything's connected to everything else, so you can't change one thing without changing ten other things. . .This farm is more like an organism than a machine, and like any organism it has proper scale.
    book-quotefoodscaleclosed-loop

  11. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the "French paradox," for how could a people who eat such demonstrably toxic substances as foie gras and triple crème cheese actually be slimmer and healthier than we are? Yet I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to speak in terms of an American paradox-that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.
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  12. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year {growth of American population}.
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