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

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

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Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

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.

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

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. Clarence Birdseye