But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.. Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking. Michael Pollan
A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement
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Jess C. Scott
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.

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Dora J. Arod
She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.
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Unknown
My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.
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Dora J. Arod
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
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Ruth Reichl
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A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into...
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from...
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the...
