One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. – Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

Sugar is sneaky, seductive, sentimental, and passionate. And sugar is everywhere. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

I tell you honestly what I think is the cause of the complicated maladies of the human race: it is their gormandizing and stuffing, and stimulating their digestive organs to an excess, thereby producing nervous disorders and irritation. – John Abernethy (1764–1831)

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