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

The best General Rule for Diet that I can write, is to Eat and Drink only of such Foods—at such times,—and in such quantities—as Experience has convinced you, agree with your Constitution—and absolutely to avoid all other. – William Kitchiner (1775–1827), “Art of Invigorating Life,” The Art of Invi

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