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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

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“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

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“The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.

--Gaudy Night”
― Dorothy Sayers

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“I had grown up in the 1950s, with radio and television and Reader's Digest, and I had assumed that everyone around us was pretty much alike.”
― Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

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“I thought then of catechism classes, about chanting the answer to a question, an answer that was "because he has said it and his word is true." I could not remember the question.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

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