The potato is as close as we get to an all-purpose food, one that on its own could feed you quite healthfully.

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The movie was fiction, but the restaurant, Ostini, and his wine are all very real, and what I love about this combo is that Ostini is a chef and restaurateur who later became a wine maker with the specific purpose of creating food friendly wines.

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While I agree that lemonade stands are beyond the scope of what is supposed to be the purpose of government regulation of the food industry.

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Conservative MP Anne McIntosh has also questioned whether the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is fit for purpose.

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The most elemental purpose of the emotion of disgust is to make us avoid rotted and toxic food.

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CO2 is an essential plant food and is a beneficent, essential part of the atmosphere for this purpose.

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Though smelling food isn't a survival skill anymore, it still serves a biological purpose.

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Beyond shaping the players themselves, teamwork at its best serves a deeper purpose whether it's Beastie Boy Mike D partnering with chef Sam Talbot to bring food to the Sandy-devastated Rockaways, or artists Sam Gilliam and Rashid Johnson, who have forged a mutually inspiring aesthetic bond, despite their 45-year age difference.

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