"Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we……" — 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 to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves."
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Margaret Visser
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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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A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused…
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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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The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not…
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