We learn from other people’s cooking, then we start making our own.

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"The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture."

- Michael Pollan

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"Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food. Stay away from these."

- Michael Pollan

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"Came from a plant, eat it; was made in a plant, don't."

- Michael Pollan

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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

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"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

Learning

"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

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