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Alexis
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Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
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“As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology. That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new, and I think, destructive idea. Destructive not just of the pleasure of eating which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“You are what what you eat eats.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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