The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldnt fly… — Lloyd Waner Copy Share Image
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it… — Jean Froissart Copy Share Image
Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The World Health Organization recently concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most-used herbicide on GMOs, is "possibly carcinogenic to humans."… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I am a black stone, the size of a kitchen stove. They wash me in the stream every summer and sing over… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“I asked a nurse for dental floss and was told that I am not allowed dental floss. Apparently dental floss can be… — Emily Austin Copy Share Image
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Escamoles have a cottage cheese-like consistency and have a buttery yet slightly nutty flavor. They are usually served sauteed with butter, garlic,… — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Look, I made a commitment to corn 17 years ago. Sure, I'm a man. I like to go to a barbecue and… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn,… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would… — Stephen Elop Copy Share Image
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and… — John Constable Copy Share Image
