The tomato’s unearthly brilliance, its zestyflavor, its lugubriously dripping succulence, were all anathema to the clergy. It “inflamed passions” in ways that the grubby brown potato could hardly be accused of doing. The potato’s chaste nature was further proven by its method of asexual reproduction: it has no seeds but instead creates offspring directly from its body. Botanical Immaculate Conception. The Love Apple, dripping unctuous juices and seeds, soft and delicious, inviting the unwary to bite deep into its harlot-red flesh and let the juices flow, was an entirely different class of being: immoral, lascivious, and decidedly un-Christian. This was serious stuff back then. When a foreign princess introduced the fork to Venice in the eleventh century, local religious leaders called divi... (查看原文)
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看完後感覺更有動力吃東西了,不管一大早美味的牛奶,中午大啖的豬肉,麵包,或是晚上吃的各種美食,就連放在一旁的醬料與小吃,都令人感到心曠神怡。 食物,吃下去的時候,除了表上面的口味,隱含了我們的認同,我們自身的存在。 我能出生在現在的年代,好幸福。