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"That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
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"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."
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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."
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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
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"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
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"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"Beware the hobby that eats."
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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."
Food
"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
Writing
"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
Leadership
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food."
Society
"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."
Food
"Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)"
Science
"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."
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"We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding."
Knowledge
"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."
Cooking
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