"A meal can be thought of as a……" — 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, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely."
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9 Quotes by Margaret Visser
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water.…
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Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger…
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Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible…
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Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
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This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because…
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Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and…
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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…
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The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not…
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