U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.
Still Life with Ham, by Philippe Rousseau, c. 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1982.
Food
Volume IV, Number 3 | summer 2011
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Miscellany
Puréed applesauce—the first food eaten in outer space, by John Glenn in 1962. Shrimp cocktail, macaroni and cheese, candy-coated peanuts, Metamucil wafers—among what he ate thirty-six years later aboard the spaceship Discovery.
‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Lapham’s
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