“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
“Yes, men and women eat meals. But they also ingest nutrients. They grind and sculpt them into a moistened bolus that is… — 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
“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
“Home economists were urged to approach teachers and lunch planners. “Let’s do more than say ‘How do you do’ to variety meats;… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Moeller came to AFB from Frito-Lay, where his job was to design, well, powdered flavor coatings for edible extruded shapes. “There are,”… — 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
“Men and women . . . do not ingest nutrients, they consume food. More than that, they . . . eat meals.… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it.… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“The goal is to be as neutral, as analytical—as “Mr. Spock”—as possible. This perhaps explains how it was possible for a team… — 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
“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
“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
“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
If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“…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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“* 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 Image
“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 Image
