It cannot be constantly pleasant : for necessity and want makes the appetite, and the appetite makes the pleasure; and men are infinitely mistaken when they despise the poor man’s table, and wonder how he can endure that life, that is maintained without the exercise of pleasure, and that he can suffer his day’s labour, and recompense it with unsavoury herbs, and potent garlic, with water-cresses, and bread coloured like the ashes that gave it hardness : he hath a hunger that gives it deliciousness.


—Rev. Jeremy Taylor, The House of Feasting .The Whole Works of the Rt. Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1