Adventure Quote by Mary Roach

“Captain James Cook was famously credited with conquering scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) by bringing barrels of sauerkraut with him to sea and feeding it…

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“Both vitamin pills and vegetables are loaded with essential nutrients, but not in the same combinations. Spinach is a good source of both vitamin…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, these cockroaches were sadomasochists, looking for the most painful way to die. Once I swallowed one absent-mindedly drinking my…

— Xiaolu Guo

Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

— Joel Fuhrman

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

— Marian Burros

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn…

— John Bachman

“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long,…

— Mark Twain

“The sprout's slightly bitter, sulfurous taste is meant to discourage would-be insect diners. This is the vegetable equivalent of a chemical weapon and evolved…

— Roger Highfield

“Dr. Weston Price, who documented the detrimental health effects that manifested in a single generation when Australian Aboriginal children who thrived for millennia on…

— Deborah Kesten

“No longer could I root happily into my mother's company and find comfort in her rounded shape. There was no one to tell me…

— Kate Bernheimer

It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is…

— Giles Coren

“Histories of botany have little to say about the suffering of the Aboriginal Australians, but they usually find some kind words for James Cook…

— Yuval Noah Harari