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title: "1 Food Everyday Quotes By Margaret Visser"
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> [Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/food-is-everyday-it-has-to-be-or-we-would-not-survive-for-long-but-2/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

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## More by Margaret Visser

> [We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/we-use-eating-as-a-medium-for-social-relationships-satisfaction-of/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/our-perception-that-we-have-no-time-is-one-of-the-distinctive-marks/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/food-is-everyday-it-has-to-be-or-we-would-not-survive-for-long-but-2/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/this-is-what-is-meant-by-sacrifice-literally-the-making-sacred-of-an/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/food-what-is-chosen-from-the-possibilities-available-how-it-is/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [food is never just something to eat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/food-is-never-just-something-to-eat/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/a-meal-can-be-thought-of-as-a-ritual-and-a-work-of-art-with-limits/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/animals-are-murdered-to-produce-meat-vegetables-are-torn-up-peeled/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/the-extent-to-which-we-take-everyday-objects-for-granted-is-the/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/salt-is-the-only-rock-directly-consumed-by-man-it-corrodes-but/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/eating-is-aggressive-by-nature-and-the-implements-required-for-it/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [“Fast-food outlets are cultural institutions dedicated not only to dealing with mankind's compulsion to eat and drink regularly, but also to doing battle with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/fast-food-outlets-are-cultural-institutions-dedicated-not-only-to/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/salt-is-the-only-rock-directly-consumed-by-man-it-corrodes-but-2/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/salt-is-the-policeman-of-taste-it-keeps-the-various-flavors-of-a-dish/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

> [Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-visser/bread-is-for-us-a-kind-of-successor-to-the-motherly-breast-and-it-has/)

[Margaret Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-visser/)

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