Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the related fad for blenderizing to increase the accessibility of nutrients.
ELVIS PRESLEY’S COLON is not on display in a glass case, but you can get a good sense of what it looked like by reading the autopsy section of The Death of Elvis. As Florendo cut, he found that this m...
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For
An entirely truthful rendering of the events would employ words such as wheedle, plead, and attempted bribe. Does publications know you’re here? If you’re not cleared through the publications office,...
It is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the li...
How to get a cat to finish its vegetables. Pyrophosphates have been described to me as cat crack. Coat some kibble with it, and you, the pet-food manufacturer, can make up for a whole host of gustator...
Didn’t bother them that the corpses would arrive at their doors, to quote Ruth Richardson, compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,…trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams… So similar in their treatm...
What’s the main ingredient in AFB’s dog-food palatants? Liver, says Moeller. Mixed with some other viscera. The first part that a wild animal usually eats in its kill is the liver and stomach, the GI...
Unscrupulous vendors turn the situation to their advantage. In China, nouveau-riche status-seekers are spending small fortunes on counterfeit Bordeaux. A related scenario exists here vis-à-vis olive o...
Unlike real tissue, human tissue simulant doesn’t snap back: The cavity remains, allowing ballistics types to judge, and preserve a record of, a bullet’s performance. Plus, you don’t need to autopsy a...
To quantify the benefit side of the equation, a dollar amount is assigned to each saved human life. As calculated by the Urban Institute in 1991, you are worth $2.7 million.
To open people’s minds to a new food, you sometimes just have to get them to open their mouths. Research has shown that if people try something enough times, they’ll probably grow to like it.
This is what primate sex hormones do: They make individuals perceive other individuals as more attractive than they’d normally perceive them. Hormones are nature’s three bottles of beer.
The mortician cleared his throat and looked toward the coffin. I suppose we should have recognized it, as we’d picked it out and paid for it the day before, but we didn’t. Finally the man walked over...
The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
Our final challenge is a ranking test: five olive oils of differing degrees of bitterness. This proves a challenge for me, as I would not have described any of them as bitter. All around me, people ma...
Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal
Medicare reimbursement code for maggots: CPT 99070.
It’s like a cat trying to imagine the taste of sugar. Cats, unlike dogs and other omnivores, can’t taste sweetness.
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.