meal quotes

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense, and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.Come, dear bowl, Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.

-Joel Barlow
  'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1

You can't fake qualityany more thanyou can fake a good meal.

-William S(eward) Burroughs
  The Western Lands, ch.2.

   Salad is not a meal. It is a style.

- Fran(ces Ann) Lebowitz
  Metropolitan Life,'Food For Thought and Vice Versa'.

Their beer was strong; their wine was port; Their meal was large; their grace was short. They gave the poor the remnant meat, Just when it grew not fit to eat.

- Matthew Prior
  'An Epitaph', l.29^32.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is perfectly good manners to read the paper.

- Amy Vanderbilt
  AmyVanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette.