Jul
15
“A few years ago, the oldest person in the world, a hundred-and-fourteen-year-old Dutch woman, said she attributed her longevity to eating pickled herring every day. (A hundred-and-fourteen-year-old woman from Texas attributed her long life to “minding my own business.”)”
Clupeophilia, Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, July 20, 2009
