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Gastronomy Of Genius: History's Great Minds And The Foods That Fueled Them

Genius and food have a lot in common. Both nurture, inspire and occasionally intimidate. Some appeal to almost everyone instantly. Others are acquired tastes. So perhaps it's not surprising that, scanning history's greatest minds, we find many were inspired by certain food or drink, repulsed by others —or had some very peculiar dining habits.
 
Quite a few geniuses had quirky eating habits. Steve Jobs had some funny ideas about food, as he did about so many things. According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, the Silicon Valley whiz kid ___1(以…维生)___ mainly on dates, almonds — and lots of carrots. He supposedly ate so many carrots that "friends remember him, at times, having a sunset-orange hue," writes Isaacson. Later, Jobs ___2(开始)___ weeklong fasts, going about it "in my usual nutso way," he told Isaacson. "After a week you start to feel fantastic. You get a ton of vitality from not having to digest all this food."
 
On the other end of the spectrum was Ernest Hemingway, who memorialized his gluttonous Paris years in his (posthumously published) memoir, A Movable Feast.
 
Then there was Charles Darwin. He not only studied exotic animals, he also ate them. While studying at Cambridge University, he headed the Glutton Club, whose members met weekly to eat "strange flesh," including owls, hawks and bittern. Later, aboard the Beagle, he ___3(试吃)___ armadillos (which "taste & look like duck"), iguanas and giant tortoises.

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天才和食物有很多共同点:都能帮助和激励我们,偶尔也会吓到我们;有的能瞬间打动所有人,有的则需要慢慢培养兴趣。纵观历史,我们可以毫不意外地发现,许多绝顶天才都有自己情有独钟或避之不及的食物、饮品,甚至一些奇特的饮食习惯。

不少天才有古怪的饮食习惯,比如史蒂夫·乔布斯。如同在很多事情上一样,他对食物有神奇的看法。根据沃特·伊萨克森写的传记,这位硅谷才俊主要以海枣、杏仁及大量的胡萝卜为食。他吃的胡萝卜多到“朋友们有时觉得他的皮肤泛着落日般的橙色”。之后,乔布斯开始了为期一周的禁食,用他自己的话来说是“以我惯有的疯狂方式”。乔布斯:“一周之后,我感觉棒极了,不用费力消化食物让我充满了活力。”
 
欧内斯特·海明威则是另一个极端,他写了回忆录《流动的盛宴》(死后出版)以纪念在巴黎吃到的美食。
 
类似的还有查尔斯·达尔文。他不仅研究异国动物,还吃了不少。他就读于剑桥大学时是“吃货俱乐部”的会长,每周和会员们聚在一起吃“奇肉”,包括猫头鹰、隼和麻鳽。之后,达尔文登上贝格尔号,一路上试吃了犰狳(“外表和味道都像鸭肉”)、鬣蜥和巨型陆龟。

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