"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

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"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Food, Gold, Song, World

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Key

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Energy, Land

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

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"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."

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"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."

Development

"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness."

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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."

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"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."

"The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume."