Heaven

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To eat is heaven.

Confucius

Food

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Food is a cultural product; it cannot be produced by technology alone … a healthy culture is a communal order of memory, insight, value, work, conviviality, reverence, aspiration. … It clarifies our inescapable bonds to the earth and to each other.

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

Eating

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Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

Wendell Berry