The better the salad the worse the dinner. – Italian proverb

[The] approach to lunch is the most wonderful time of the day. Lunch is a choice, a decision of a sort. At dinner one must eat, but at lunch one chooses to eat well. There’s a certain excitement to lunch. – Fergus Henderson quoted in Adam Gopnik’s The Table Comes First

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a good piece of bread. – Henry Miller, 1891-1980, Remember to Remember