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In fact, as Forbes reported, “Wells employees opened 1,534,280 unauthorized deposit accounts, 85,000 of which accrued a total of $2 million in fees.”
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)
longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
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Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Then there is the uncanny business of the truffle that somehow gains weight between leaving the ground and arriving on the scales. It could be that it has been gift wrapped in an extra coating of earth. On the other hand, it could be that a heavier substance altogether has found its way inside the truffle itself—invisible until, in mid-slice, your
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supply. Intended by nature to be consumed in small amounts via whole fruit, where it’s packaged with fiber, water, and nutrients, sugar has become the pervasive addition to countless packaged foods and sweetened beverages.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
I don't eat mussels in restaurants unless I know the chef personally, or have seen, with my own eyes, how they store and hold their mussels for service.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Microwaving kills most nutrients, it’s a known fact. No wonder so many Americans are so unhealthy; that kind of cooking should be banned by law.
Stephen King • Holly
The growing need for food is forcing millions of people to resort to eating animals that should be left alone.
Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate
Monbiot compares the state of today’s global food system with the global financial system of 2008. According to his research, there has been an incredible corporate consolidation that massively increased the vulnerability of the system, stating that, for example, just four companies control 90% of the global grain trade.