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The research psychologist at The University of Pennsylvania who first coined the phrase “the omnivore’s dilemma” in 1976 with his paper entitled “The Selection of Foods by Rats, Humans, and Other Animals.” Rozin studied the difference between animals who only eat one type of food and those who can eat many foods; the latter type are faced with daily choices about what to eat. Michael Pollan used Rozin’s phrase as the book’s title.
Paul Rozin Quotes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The The Omnivore’s Dilemma quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Rozin or refer to Paul Rozin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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And while our senses can help us draw the first rough distinctions between good and bad foods, we humans have to rely on culture to remember and keep it all straight. So we codify the rules of wise eating in an elaborate structure of taboos, rituals, manners, and culinary traditions, covering everything from the proper size of portions to the order in which foods should be consumed to the kinds of animals it is and is not okay to eat.
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Paul Rozin Quotes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The The Omnivore’s Dilemma quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Rozin or refer to Paul Rozin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 16
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And while our senses can help us draw the first rough distinctions between good and bad foods, we humans have to rely on culture to remember and keep it all straight. So we codify the rules of wise eating in an elaborate structure of taboos, rituals, manners, and culinary traditions, covering everything from the proper size of portions to the order in which foods should be consumed to the kinds of animals it is and is not okay to eat.
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