"It had zippered pockets and a tab to mount your shopping list on the sleeve." - NICOLA TWILLEY, Easy A: The SuperRad Story of Home Economics, Gastropod #Gastropod #NationalZipperDay #NicolaTwilley

"Martha Stewart's into edibles, Willie Nelson's into edibles, Snoop's obviously into edibles, and now we're into them too." - NICOLA TWILLEY, Baked: How Pot Brownies and Pate de Fruits Fueled an Edible Cannabis Revolution, Gastropod #NicolaTwilley

"And at least I can still enjoy the smell of garlic, which is a powerful thing." - NICOLA TWILLEY, The Brightest Bulb, Gastropod #Gastropod #NationalGarlicDay #NicolaTwilley

"Salty licorice is a very strange thing, to be honest." - NICOLA TWILLEY, Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger, Gastropod #Gastropod #NationalLicoriceDay #NicolaTwilley

"The local PBS station made a documentary about Stiltsville and its little Stilt houses." - NICOLA TWILLEY, You're Wrong About Prohibition, Gastropod #Gastropod #PublicTelevisionDay #NicolaTwilley

"Tens of millions of them were used to move everything: beer, cheese, crackers, salted fish, pickles, sugar, flour, petroleum." - NICOLA TWILLEY, The Barrel That Could Save A Forest, Gastropod #Gastropod #NationalBeerDay #NicolaTwilley

"So far, we've talked a lot about carrot color." - NICOLA TWILLEY, How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories, Gastropod #Gastropod #InternationalCarrotDay #NicolaTwilley

"The baby carrot needed new everything." - NICOLA TWILLEY, How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories, Gastropod #Gastropod #InternationalCarrotDay #NicolaTwilley

"But our whiskey is not done yet." - NICOLA TWILLEY, Espresso and Whisky: The Place of Time in Food, Gastropod #Gastropod #InternationalWhiskeyDay #NicolaTwilley

"It was really like forced alcoholism." - NICOLA TWILLEY, You're Wrong About Prohibition, Gastropod #Gastropod #NicolaTwilley