Recently I began to feel this void in my life, even after meals, and I said to myself, "Dave, all you do with your spare time is sit around and drink beer. You need a hobby. " So I got a hobby. I make beer.
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!
Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.
We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.
By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert.
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked up anything heavy, worked hard, or eaten less than they wanted at every meal. This approach is, of course, wrong. And it has resulted in a lot of expensive, unattractive, and entirely preventable problems amongst people who seem puzzled about why things aren't going well.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
. . no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event. . . The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us. . . a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.
We've got a lot of the meal left to go. Should we move on from the turkey?
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.