Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. – Escoffier

A man’s dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else. – Anthony Trollope

Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He like thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with breadcrumbs, fried hencod’s roe. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of scented urine. – James Joyce