The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our NatureFree Press, 1994 - 248 pagini What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, and the ritual meal, and reveals how eating not only feeds the body but also nourishes the soul. |
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Pagina 121
... bread . Bread , even more than meat , is the human food . There are numerous reasons why this is so . In eating meat , men do pretty much as the carnivores . True , cooking for taste and edibili- ty is a specifically human addition ...
... bread . Bread , even more than meat , is the human food . There are numerous reasons why this is so . In eating meat , men do pretty much as the carnivores . True , cooking for taste and edibili- ty is a specifically human addition ...
Pagina 122
... bread . Many peoples of the earth , of course , do not eat bread ; hence bread cannot be literally the human food . But much of what has here been said about bread is also applicable to rice , a grain that is the staff of life to half ...
... bread . Many peoples of the earth , of course , do not eat bread ; hence bread cannot be literally the human food . But much of what has here been said about bread is also applicable to rice , a grain that is the staff of life to half ...
Pagina 124
... bread an expres- sion of prudent concern for the future , it was formerly widely used to conserve and preserve foods ... bread : Bread and salt are customarily offered in Russia ( where the word for " hospitality " means literally ...
... bread an expres- sion of prudent concern for the future , it was formerly widely used to conserve and preserve foods ... bread : Bread and salt are customarily offered in Russia ( where the word for " hospitality " means literally ...
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activity appetite Aristotle awareness Babette Babette's feast become begin bodily body bread bread and salt Brillat-Savarin cannibalism carnivores cells Chapter chewing civilized common conversation creatures cultural customs Cyclops desire dietary laws dining dinner party distinction divine drink earth eater edible especially ethical example eyes fact feed flesh freedom fruit Genesis grace guests hand holy hospitality host human eating human form hunger Ibid incisors kind least Leo Strauss Leviticus liberality living form living things look man's manifest Margaret Visser material matter meal means meat metabolism mind moral motion mouth nature necessity neediness Nicomachean Ethics nourishing Odysseus omnivorousness one's organism ourselves philosophical pleasures Polyphemos possible powers present principle psychic question rational rational animal reason regarding relation salt self-conscious sense separation share sight social soul speak speech strangers taste tion tongue Torah transformation true unclean upright posture vegetarian virtue whole wine