"Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" [.]

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Lest you think Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio wrote this as a recipe book:

• (In Bhutan,) As Buddhists, they don't kill animals for food, but if a cow dies by accident, the they'll eat it.
• Favorite food (in Greenland) - Emil: polar bear. Erika: narwhal skin.
  
• 闲情烤翅餐 - Leisurely Fried Wings Meal
  
• Now, there's every chance that a pupi will be hollow sugar shells and look like Spiderman, a dinosaur, or... Dragonball Z.
• A meal in Okinawa: a jellied fruit dessert made from bright-red acerola berries, silver sprat fish, bitter grass with creaming tofu, daikon, seaweed, tapioca with purple potato and potato leaves, and pork cooked in the juice of tiny Okinawan limes.
• (The bereaved daughter) was serving (her cooking) to the friends and neighbors at the funeral, many of whom were taking advantage of a quirk in Filipino Law that permits wagering on games, but only at funerals.
  

__ On average, chimps spend six hours a day chewing, and people (that is to say, members of the cooking species) only one.
__ We have domesticated nothing more significant than strawberries and reindeer since (3000-4000 years ago).

__ Street food belongs to the era of market capitalism, which did not become widespread until the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of global trade.

__ The disappearance of animals from our lives has opened a space in which there's no reality check, on either the sentiment or the brutality. ...(With) the loss of eye contact.. we either look away or become vegetarians.
__ In (the American industrial animal farm), life itself is redefined - as protein production - and with it suffering.

"pupi di zucchero", "Kiss, King of Balls"

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