"Whenever he is not sleeping or eating, he is working, " recalls Zhang, now at Harvard.
If he makes this gesture to an acquaintance who is eating, he is asking to share the meal.
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Todd Plummer, a freelance fashion reporter, said he is always happy to get free food, even if he is the only one eating.
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This however, is where my agreement with Neil stops, because he indicates that England will win the Ashes next year, which means he is not eating enough Vegemite.
On most nights and weekends he is either cooking, eating or thinking about barbecue.
"It may well be that he's found a dead animal and is sitting there eating something and has no real desire to come back to the castle until he's hungry again, " he added.
He drank moderately over the course of two meals I shared with him, leaving some very good juice in his glasses at the end, and he is by his own description positively ascetic when he's on the road, eating sparingly, spitting dutifully.
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All this may be great fun for foodies, but the attraction of Mr Barlow's book is that he goes well beyond the business of eating.
What he would say is, responsible meat-eating is eating an animal who has led a life that, you know, did not involve too much confinement, an animal that was treated well, an animal that was slaughtered humanely, which, again, a lot of people would say is an oxymoron.
Much of this behavior, which he calls conditioned hyper-eating, is due to brain pathways that are established and reinforced by the regular consumption of highly appealing high-fat, high-sugar, salty foods.
Dell is eating more of the lunch of Toshiba and Compaq, he said, than of IBM's market share.
"Twenty-five calories is not a serving, so we nibble without thinking we are eating, " he says.
"I know where I'm from, I know where I'm going, my baby is waiting for me, he's happy, and I'm looking forward to eating Cheerios with him tonight, " she said.
But at the inquiry he revealed that his statement should have read that "there is no scientific justification for not eating British beef".
"You know that the World's Hot Dog Eating Champion is crowned in Coney Island and nowhere else, and that's where he'll be crowned, " he said.
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