In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger..

Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends….

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find..

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable ….

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt..

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt..

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture..

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar..

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod..

Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutr….

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are al….

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not al….

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one..

Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foo….

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness..

A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might.….

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in ca….

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. C….

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natu….

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating..

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted..