We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.