Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating. – Edward Everett Hale, “How to Get the Best of It,” c.1892

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

Come, come! Let us go to breakfast. The morning air has given me a rude appetite. I long to say grace over a fresh egg… – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. – Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, “Food for Thought and Vice Versa”