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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has…
• Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing…
• Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions…
• Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
• A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,…
• This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells…
• Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much…
• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It…
• The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their…

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