Read quote“Taoism concentrates on clear and serene cultivation while medicine treats with herbs, diet, acupuncture, and moxibustion.”
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About Food
Food, eating, cooking, nourishment, and culinary culture.
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Words on Food
Read quote“I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up.”
Read quote“Climate, seasons, plenty, scarcity, distance, will shake hands, and out of the commingling will come enough for all.”
Read quote“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”
Read quote“At Starbucks, coffee comes first.”
Read quote“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”
Read quote“Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant.”
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Quote Stories about Food
Supper That Travels
Yara’s first meal kits were efficient, tidy, and nearly useless. To make supper portable, she had to learn that every pair of hands carried its own knowledge.
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A Menu With Room to Breathe
Salma could tell a copied recipe by the second bite. What she could not yet tell was how to teach her cousin to invent one.
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What Belongs in the Lunch Tin
Mara’s identical lunch tins were efficient, tidy, and almost entirely unwanted. To repair the school kitchen, she takes the long bus route through the island’s mountain villages and learns that a good meal is something people help shape.
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