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In times of war prices of the necessaries of life are generally very much increased, but the prices of labor of the poor do not usually rise.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,

nunna daul Tsuny in the Cherokee language,

Modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

The longer wars last, the less popular they become.

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.

All Quiet on the Western Front,

International League of Peace and Freedom, was formed in 1867 in Geneva. Its

In eighteenth-century England, anchovy sauce became known as ketchup, katchup, or catsup.

It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.

ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

In 1411, the French Crown granted a patent declaring that only the cheese of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon could be called Roquefort cheese.

softness overcomes hardness.

In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury - butter.

Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.

The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest

Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.

If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.

New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.

General Motors, ITT, and Ford come most readily to mind as having plants protected by Hitler,

It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.

Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese' (Charles de Gaulle, 1961 speech)

Nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.

When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This

One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.

Take the tail of the female tuna - and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.

Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float ... are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou

the Poor Men of Lyons,

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

The name potash is derived from the process used for making potassium carbonate, cooking down water and wood ash in earthen pots.

When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense? The

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.

Proteins unwind when exposed to heat, and they do the same when exposed to salt. So salting has an effect resembling cooking.