Michael Pollan Quotes

It May Also Be That, Quite Apart From Any Specific References One Food Makes To Another, It Is The Very Allusiveness Of Cooked Food That Appeals To Us, As Indeed That Same Quality Does In Poetry Or Music Or Art. We Gravitate Towards Complexity And Metaphor, It Seems, And Putting Fire To Meat Or Fermenting Fruit And Grain, Gives Us Both: More Sheer Sensory Information And, Specifically, Sensory Information That, Like Metaphor, Points Away From The Here And Now. This Sensory Metaphor - This Stands For That - Is One Of The Most Important Transformations Of Nature Wrought By Cooking. And So A Piece Of Crisped Pig Skin Becomes A Densely Allusive Poem Of Flavors: Coffee And Chocolate, Smoke And Scotch And Overripe Fruit And, Too, The Sweet-salty-woodsy Taste Of Maple Syrup On Bacon I Loved As A Child. As With So Many Other Things, We Humans Seem To Like Our Food Overdetermined.

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