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

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

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.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.