If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

Eating is a political act.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.