“Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“On the Iron Chef episode “Battle Offal,” judges swooned over raw heart tartar, lamb’s liver truffles, tripe, sweetbreads, and gizzard.” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the related fad for blenderizing to increase the accessibility of nutrients.” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Of relevant interest, an 1859 issue of California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences offers a recipe* for a nutritional extract made… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Animals have evolved to survive,” Rawson says. They like what’s best for them. People blanch to see “fish meal” or “meat meal”… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“To open people’s minds to a new food, you sometimes just have to get them to open their mouths. Research has shown… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Fletcherism. The U.S. Army Medical Department issued formal instructions for a “Method of Attaining Economic Assimilation of Nutriment”—aka the Fletcher system. (“Masticate… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“The other problem with classroom-based efforts to change eating habits was that children don’t decide what’s for dinner. Mead and her team… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“It starts as an appetizer typically. That’s low risk. Then it migrates to an entrée dish. Then it becomes a food that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“the National Research Council (NRC) hired a team of anthropologists, led by the venerable Margaret Mead, to study American food habits. How… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Interpreting animals’ eating behaviors is tricky. By way of example, one of the highest compliments a dog can pay its food is… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Men and women . . . do not ingest nutrients, they consume food. More than that, they . . . eat meals.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Cows, by virtue of the plentiful and varied bacteria in their rumen, are able to derive energy from things that would pass… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Our hair is as much as 14 percent L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly used to make meat flavorings and to elasticize dough… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“By the time children are ten years old, generally speaking, they’ve learned to eat like the people around them. Once food prejudices… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Rawson has an idea of what it is like to eat without perceiving tastes, because she has talked to cancer patients whose… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Another strategy was to target kids. “The human infant enters the world without information about what is edible and what is not,”… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Liver,” says Moeller. “Mixed with some other viscera. The first part that a wild animal usually eats in its kill is the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“At one chew per second, the Fletcherizing of a single bite of shallot would take more than ten minutes. Supper conversation presented… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“The terrier mix is named Alabama. His tail thumps a beat on the side of the crate. “Alabama is a gobbler real… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“There is a famous study from the 1930s involving a group of orphanage babies who, at mealtimes, were presented with a smorgasbord… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Fletcher believed—decided, really—that by chewing each mouthful of food until it liquefies, the eater could absorb more or less double the amount… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“As is jalapeño—though according to psychologist Paul Rozin, Mexican dogs, unlike American dogs, enjoy a little heat. Rozin’s work suggests animals have… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Frequent bowel movements were associated with an increased risk of rectal cancer in men, and constipation was associated with a decreased risk.”… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Our hair is as much as 14 percent L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly used to make meat flavorings and to elasticize dough… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“THE MOST EFFECTIVE agent of dietary change is the adulated eater—the king who embraces whelks, the revolutionary hero with a passion for… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“two to three tablespoonfuls was equal to two pounds of meat, with the advantage that it lends to the laborers’ potatoes and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“comparing traditional bouillon with gelatin-based broth. The latter was “more distasteful, more putrescible, less digestible, less nutritious, and . . . moreover,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“mainstream pet-food manufacturers blend animal fats and meals with soy and wheat grains and add vitamins and minerals. This yields a cheap,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“It pulls a “gape”: mouth opened wide, tongue stuck out to eject the offending food. (Humans do this too. The scientific term… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“As an example, Blake mentions a Sudanese condiment made from fermented cow urine and used as a flavor enhancer “very much in… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“(Most of these seemingly collected by Keith’s mother: “Some of the pleasantest recollections of my boyhood are of fried jackrabbit, baked jackrabbit,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“The extent to which Americans project their own food qualms and biases onto their pets has lately veered off into the absurd.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Rawson points out that although snakes can’t taste, they have a primitive sense of smell. They’ll extend their tongue to gather volatile molecules and… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“As the number of Inuit who hunt has dwindled, so has the consumption of organs (and other anatomy not available for purchase at the… — Mary Roach Copy Share
For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“If you look at survivable crashes, it’s rare that even half the emergency exits open,” says Shanahan. “Plus, there’s a lot of panic and… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Viagra isn't the only drug being prescribed off-label for women with arousal problems. Los Angeles urologist Jennifer Berman told me some doctors are prescribing… — Mary Roach Copy Share
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as… — Mary Roach Copy Share
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because:… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“panel applicants at the initial screening were asked not only to describe the cat foods but also to rate them according to how much… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“* Kissing is a less aggressive form of bacterial transplant. Studies of three different gingivitis-causing bacteria have documented migration from spouse to spouse. Periodontically… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Nirlungayuk reached a similar conclusion. I tracked him down, seventeen years later, and asked him what the outcome of his country-foods campaign had been.… — Mary Roach Copy Share
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Olive trees grow in the same climate and soil conditions as grapes. The olive oil people have been up in Napa Valley all along,… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“A patient on the way to surgery travels at twice the speed of a patient on the way to the morgue. Gurneys that ferry… — Mary Roach Copy Share
