“The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”

“Life should always be like this…. Like lingering over a good meal.”

“When poets — write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”

“I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.”

“As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.”

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”

“I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It come partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and oldmaidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.”

“Allah's Apostle said, "The superiority of 'Aisha over other women is like the superiority of Tharid to other meals."”

“Allah's Apostle said, "The superiority of 'Aisha over other women is like the superiority of Tharid to other meals."”

“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”