Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

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