Part 36 (1/2)

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First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press, part of The Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013

First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2013

Copyright Michael Pollan, 2013

A portion of Chapter Two first appeared under the t.i.tle 'Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch' in The New York Times Magazine, 29 July 2009.

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I. AYDEN, NORTH CAROLINA

* Though later, in Leviticus, rules governing grain sacrifices are spelled out in detail; the commentaries suggest such rituals allowed people who could not afford to sacrifice an animal to nevertheless make an acceptable offering.

* In Greek thought, which obsessively worries the distinctions between man and animal, ”raw eater” (omophagos) is a cutting epithet, bearing connotations of savagery. Cyclops commits a double outrage against civilization when he eats Odysseus' sailors without cooking them first.

II. CAMBRIDGE, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS