mastication

• “In this class too must be reckoned the teeth, which in some animals have but a single function, namely the mastication of the food, while in others they have an additional office, namely to serve as weapons; as is the case with all animals that have sharp interfitting teeth or that have tusks.”

  On the Parts of Animals

• “Nuts should be used as a food staple, a major element in the bill of fare, rather than as a dessert, and special care must be taken as to thorough mastication, which is almost equally true of apples, bananas and numerous other fruits which possess a firm flesh.”

  Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930

• “Barley is not liked by everybody; nevertheless, it is an excellent food and its nature is such that even after long cooking it remains so firm as to require thorough mastication, which is the first great step in the digestion of starchy foods.”

  Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads

• “The so-called mastication work is taking place at two sites: 22 acres east of Interstate 5 along Antlers Drive and 130 acres west of I-5, north of Doney Creek.”

  redding.com Stories

• “Instead, what you want is the whole clam belly, well coated and properly fried in clean, hot oil, to produce the total joy that comes from the soft, seaworthy oozing revealed upon mastication.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Rosenthal: One Woman's Disgusting Clam Is Another Man's Pleasure To Eat

• “The number [ONE ONLY] they get from all this mastication of data is meaningless.”

  Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Example of Climate Work That Needs to be Checked and Replicated

• “Its content-analyzing mastication glands find little nutritional value.”

  jeffrey winke | i’ll tell you so « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “The gum-chewing man staring out the window, his mastication amplified by his superb moustache.”

  Archive 2010-05-01

• “I didn't pay much attention, at first, thinking the rabbity mastication motions a tic, probably something rabbits just did.”

  Fictionaut: Puff

• “Today we will hone our intellectual palette on only one facet of this onyx jewel in the vast diaspora of sinister mastication: Cthulhu Cakes”

  Images of the Week : The Lovecraft News Network

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