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"Cooking, in effect, took part of the work of chewing and digestion and performed it for us outside of the body, using outside sources of energy. Also, since cooking detoxifies many potential sources of food, the new technology cracked open a treasure trove of calories unavailable to other animals. Freed from the necessity of spending our days gathering large quantities of raw food and then chewing (and chewing) it, humans could now devote their time, and their metabolic resources, to other purposes, like creating a culture."

Michael Pollan

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Friday
Nov192010

A breakfast selection

DateFriday, November 19, 2010 at 12:00AM

"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop." (Winston Churchill)

"To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day." (Somerset Maugham)

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." (Oscar Wilde)

"He smiled rather too much. He smiled at breakfast, you know" (Charles Wheeler)

Cited in Schott, B. (2003) Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany. London: Bloomsbury.

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