A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate cons…

Wendell Berry
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. ✨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, p.326, Counterpoint
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. ✨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, p.326, Counterpoint

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