6 Quotes About Feasting

Food is a major part of our lives, and we can’t live without it. We eat it to fuel our bodies and to make us feel good. It’s also a way of sharing our emotions and memories with other people. The way we prepare food, the company we sit around a table with, and the time we spend eating together all have an effect on our happiness Read more

We can’t forget about the smell of food either! Smells are one of the strongest influences on our sense of smell, which is something that affects our moods. The smell of food can make us feel happy, sad, or scared. And since smell is linked to memory, you can use this to your advantage by using it as a way to remember the past or make the future bright.

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... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. E.a. Bucchianeri
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Family gathersto share good noise and good food. Gratitude abounds. Richelle E. Goodrich
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[The] dinner party is a true proclamation of the abundance of being -- a rebuke to the thrifty little idolatries by which we lose sight of the lavish hand that made us. It is precisely because no one needs soup fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever. The unnecessary is the taproot of our being and the last key to the door of delight. Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls, the formal dinner..the true convivium -- the long Session that brings us nearly home. Robert Farrar Capon
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The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by Christ. He did not come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All the dancing and feasting and processing and singing and building and sculpting and baking and merrymaking that belong to us, and that were stolen away into the service of false gods, are returned to us in the gospel. . Thomas Howard
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I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou.Summer, I salute thee! Victor Hugo