Oswald de Andrade, Manifesto Antropófago. Cannibalist Manifesto, 1928. Translated by Leslie Barry, 1991

Calling all Amsterdam North avid gardeners or anyone who regularly come across the slow-slugging lettuce-devouring gastropods, I am trying to collect many, many snails (a few thousand) of the edible kind — the humble garden snail (Cornu aspersum)

Yesterday plant specialist Claud Biemans and I trekked out to Fort Ruigehoek, a former military defense fortress just outside of Utrecht, where we made an inventory of all the plants growing on the ruins of Fort Ruigehoek. One of the most prolific plants growing between the brickwork and pavement seams at this time of year is [...]

Domesticated albino Louisianna crayfish, saved from the pan and kept as kitchen pet.

Carl Kerenyi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Translated from German by Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976