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Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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