Food for Thought

  Food is our common ground, a universal experience. 
- James Beard

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water,
is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight…”
M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

All sorrows are less with bread.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars  and all the heavens.
- Robert Browning

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the
court that surrounds the king.
- Louis Bromfield

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and
eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
- Peter Farb and George Armelagos
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
- Lucretius, Roman Poet and Philosopher

The table is a place of communion for life’s large and small events.
Art Smith, Master Chef

If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- E.M. Forster