Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.

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

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

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

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.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.