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“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
— Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan, in AARP The Secret of Shelter Island: Money and What Matters (19 December 2011), p. 105
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