"Salt is the only rock directly consumed by……" — 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 for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred."
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Margaret Visser
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9 Quotes by Margaret Visser
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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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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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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.
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It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you…
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