How Carrots Won the Trojan War Quotes

“Historically, kale has been a more popular food for livestock than for people, though for both it is notably nutritious,”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Medicinally, cabbage eating was said to prevent drunkenness or at least to alleviate hangovers, both recurrent Roman problems; it was also the vegetable of choice for curing colic, paralysis, and the plague.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Emperor Claudius, the story goes, once convoked the Senate to vote on whether corned beef and cabbage was the best of all possible dinner dishes.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“If you lived on cabbage, you would not be obliged to flatter the powerful.” The young man promptly replied, “If you flattered the powerful, you would not be obliged to live on cabbage.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Beets, they claim, taste like dirt. And they do, actually, although most beet aficionados prefer the term “earthy.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Not worth beans” has meant “utterly valueless” since the thirteenth century, which shows that, historically, we haven’t had a clue as to the value of beans.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Both Old and New World beans — and, to be fair, bran, onions, cucumbers, raisins, cauliflower, lettuce, coffee, and dark beer — have a reputation for eliciting a condition known delicately in the sixteenth century as “windinesse.” Flatulence, for much of human history, has been a pressing social concern:”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Tepary beans, before the advent of the playing card and the poker chip, figured as counters in an ancient Indian gambling game.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“American bean cookery owes a lot to the Indians who, by the time the European colonists arrived, had been cooking and eating beans for at least 600 years.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“the medieval Doctrine of Signatures held that the shapes of plants constituted a broad hint from the Almighty as to their uses in healing.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“a kid snatched from the jaws of a savage wolf,” which sounds suspiciously like the first-century equivalent of roadkill.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“L-dopa may account for the classical reports of sleep disturbances, vivid dreaming, and enhanced sexuality associated with fava bean eating.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Since Roman times, farmers have periodically planted their fields with Rhizobia-toting legumes to add fixed nitrogen to the soil.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Eco argues that the upswing in population size, energy, intellect, and the economy all derived from a new crop. It was in the tenth century that Europeans began the widespread cultivation of beans.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“local eating calls for more ingenuity and self-sacrifice in some places than in others.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“In the early 1990s, the American government, in an attempt to persuade Peruvian farmers to grow something other than coca — the immensely profitable raw material of cocaine — began to subsidize Peruvian asparagus.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Pliny reports solemnly, “It is said that if a person is rubbed with asparagus beaten up in oil, he will never be stung by bees.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Despite — or perhaps because of — its propensity for provoking unbridled lust, people have been cooking asparagus at least since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“if Eve had had a spade and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Real food, Pollan points out, is not fast. Like all good things, it takes time: one way or another, it grows, and the closer we are to that process, the healthier and happier we’re likely to be.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“In the words of the Joni Mitchell song, we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“J. B. Morton, who wrote: “Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes and laugh in a cold, calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, and favor beards.”)”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“vegetable eating traditionally has been considered far better for the good of the soul.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes and laugh in a cold, calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, and favor beards.”)”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

“According to Norse legend, peas arrived on earth as a punishment sent by the god Thor who, in a fit of pique, dispatched a flight of dragons with peas in their talons to fill up the wells of his unsatisfactory worshippers.”
― Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables