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I put the leaf-wrapped parcel, almost the size of a matchbox, into the side of my mouth between the cheek and the teeth, as I’d seen the others do. Within seconds, a suffusion of aromatic sweetnesses possessed my mouth. The taste was sharp and luscious—honeyed and subtly piquant at the same time.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
It should: sugar, in the way it stimulates the release of dopamine, resembles drugs of abuse.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
So long as any man drinks when he wants to and stops when he wants to, he isn’t a drunkard, no matter how much he drinks or how often he falls under the table.
William Seabrook • Asylum
It is a subset of these trees that was brought to West Africa by European colonisers. Following independence from Brit... See more
When several years ago an NYU colleague mentioned to Ross that LSD had once been used to treat thousands of alcoholics in Canada and the United States (and that Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, had sought to introduce LSD therapy into AA in the 1950s), Ross, who was in his thirties at the time, did some research and was “flabbergas
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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Michael Moss • Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
larceny
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
prurient
Anthony Bourdain • Medium Raw
Do you really want a local cannery?