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Hunger is best sauce. Or the republican culinary tradition

By Rachel Laudan December 10, 2013 Food History, Food Politics 15 Comments

If you google “hunger is the best sauce,” you’ll come across lots of variants (pickle, spice) as well as lots of attributions from Socrates to Cicero to Cervantes. It’s a…

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Unnatural Appetite

By Rachel Laudan March 29, 2008 Food History No Comments

I was delighted when last week the Old Foodie, who ferrets out the most wonderful quotations, posted this: “Pleasure is the thing proposed, and because there can be none without…

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