Here are some favorite excerpts:
"Flavor is a cognitive figment. The brain fuses into a single experience the results of different stimuli registered by the tongue, nose, eyes and ears, in addition to memories of previously consumed meals. For reasons that are not fully understood, we perceive flavor as occurring in our mouths, and that illusion is nearly unshakable, as is made clear by our difficulty identifying, with any reasonable specificity, the way each of our various senses contributes to the experience[...] Our sense of smell plays a much larger role in defining flavor than our sense of taste does."
-The Taste Makers by Raffi Khatchadourian
"The subject of food, and kitchens and cooking, can lull even the most reluctant and suspicious people into conversation, and when I add Thanksgiving, where the food is not only plentiful but familial and friendly, to that conversation, they will shed any lingering doubts as to my good intentions and tell me what I came to hear."
-Pilgrim's Progress by Jane Kramer
This article argued "the futility of thinking that something learned by rote was as good as what was learned by ritual."
-What's the Recipe? by Adam Gopnik
This quote is not food related but is certainly worth quoting. It was in The Talk of the Town section at the front of the magazine, regarding Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's infamous boy-toy who has recently been making quite a splash in the gossip news.
"Johnston is the father of the grand-child of someone people care a lot about, which makes him, by the transitive property of celebrity, someone people care a little bit about."
- Dept. of Hoopla, by Kelefa Sanneh
