Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Meal Quotations

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.