The American consumer will eat out more often, benefiting the likes of Panera Bread ( PNRA), Chipotle Mexican Grill ( CMG), etc.

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Mr Woods said almost half the food we eat is dependent on fungi, such as the production of milk and bread.

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The French eat tons of cheese and bread and butter-soaked cuisine, yet they know when to stop.

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Those who walk into the kitchen in a state bordering on panic and breathlessly eat slice after slice of bread and butter not even tasting it until the panic can be drowned in an almost meditative routine of chewing and swallowing, spooning and swallowing.

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Li urged us to soak our feet in hot water before bed, to fight jet lag, and to eat extra fruit, which might balance the European infusion of bread and cheese into our diets.

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According to popular legend, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who, while gambling, told his butler to put some meat between two slices of bread so he could eat without interrupting the game and getting grease on the cards.

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He has never had one of the sandwiches because he doesn't eat bread.

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"We are a nuclear country but one without electricity, without gas, or water, or bread for people to eat, " Mr. Sharif said at a recent election rally in the town of Havelian, in northern Pakistan.

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