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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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Dec022012

C.R. Fay on tea

DateSunday, December 2, 2012 at 12:06PM

"Tea, which refreshes and quietens, is the natural beverage of a taciturn people, and being easy to prepare, it came as a godsend to the world's worst cooks." 

C.R. Fay, described by Sidney Mintz as "a sometimes mordant commentator on English social history".

Quoted in Mintz, S. (1985) Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. London: Penguin. p. 118

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