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• Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
• In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,
• THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.
• The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,
• A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you…
• A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he…
• Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a…
• Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances,…
• The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
• In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is…
• I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world…
• A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

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