Sublime

Interestingly, building visceral fat is actually a key survival strategy for bears and other animals: the rich supply of fruit in the summer and fall allows them to consume copious quantities of fructose, leading to massive fat stores that let them survive the winter. But for modern human beings, winter never comes. We keep consuming “healthy” frui

This gluttonous enterprise of ugliness, waste, and fraud thrives in the disastrous breach it has helped to make between our bodies and our souls.

isn’t true, though, to say that “feeding disorders” are only for infants, and “eating disorders” are for teenagers and adults. To study disorders of eating is to see that we live in an era when some children are old before their time, and some adults are forever juvenile.

“in hunger and satiety, there is some point in the development process when children begin to respond to contextual cues such as portion size.”

“To England and the English, as long as they keep their cooking to themselves.” Most of the French people we had met were more or less disdainful of la cuisine Anglaise without knowing very much about it. But Régis was different. He had made a study of the English and their eating habits, and during dinner he told us exactly where we went wrong. It

Nutella, the spread of holidays, a chocolated knife lying across the upturned lid, brioche, croissant crumbs and a carton of orange juice, all gently congealing beneath the shade of a dirty Heineken parasol.

The existence of birthday cake ice cream suggests that we can no longer distinguish celebration foods from everyday ones. We are also not too sure whether we are children or adults.